Former Indian captain and hitting legend Sunil Gavaskar has criticized the Indian team’s management, stating that there are “different rules for different players” in the locker room. Citing the example of the left arm pacemaker T Natarajan, Gavaskar stated that the newcomer would also be wondering about these “rules.”
In his latest column on Sportstar, Gavaskar pointed out the difference in the treatment of Natarajan and employer Virat Kohli in the context of obtaining paternity leave.
Natarajan became a father while playing the IPL for the Hyderabad Sunrisers. He has yet to see his newborn daughter as she traveled directly to Australia and made her international debut thereafter. Meanwhile, Kohli has left Australia after the first test to be with her family at the birth of their son in India.
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Commenting strongly on this, Gavaskar wrote: “Another player who will wonder about the rules, but of course can’t make noise about it as he is a newcomer. It’s T. Natarajan. The left-arm yorker specialist who made an impressive debut in T20 and had Hardik Pandya gallantly offering to share the T20 series man award with him, had become a father for the first time even as the playoffs of the IPL “.
“He had become a father for the first time even while the IPL playoffs were going on. He was asked to remain in the test series (Australia), but not as part of the team, but as a net thrower. Imagine that. A match winner, albeit in another format, is asked to be a net thrower. Therefore, he will return home only after the series ends in the third week of January and he will be able to see his daughter for the first time at that time. And there is the captain (Virat Kohli) returning after the first test for the birth of his first child ”, he added.
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Gavaskar also cited the example of veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin who, according to the former Indian captain, has “suffered” not because of his bowling ability but because of his “frankness.”
“For too long Ashwin has suffered not because of his skill at bowling, of which only rude people will have doubts, but because of his frankness and speaking his mind in meetings where most others just nod, even if they are not in agreement. agreement. If Ashwin doesn’t take a lot of ground in one game, he’s invariably offside for the next. However, that doesn’t happen to established hitters, ”Gavaskar wrote.
Gavaskar ended his column with the phrase that read: “That is Indian cricket. Different rules for different people. If you don’t believe me, ask Ravi Ashwin and T. Natarajan. “
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