Monday, April 6, 2009

Shahrukh lashes out at Gavaskar

On Sunday , Bollywood Star Shahrukh lashed out at Indian Cricket legend Gavaskar for making scathing remarks against his kolkata Knight Rider 's cricketing coach John Buchanan and almost asked Gavaskar to know his limits .

"I respect Mr Gavaskar - his knowledge about cricket is a billion times better than me," Khan told reporters in Mumbai. "But this is an era where Mr Gavaskar has not indulged in; nevertheless his knowledge about the game does allow him to make comments.This is a new format that's being tried out. Please give it some breathing space.I am the owner of the team, I bought it. If he wants to implement something, let him buy a team."

Earlier Gavaskar made scathing remarks against the Kolkata Knight rider's coach . "To comment on his multiple skipper theory is to give it the importance it doesn't deserve but what does require comment is how he has got his Queensland pals lucrative jobs with KKR," wrote Gavaskar. "They have a very big support staff which includes his son and most of them are from Queensland. The owners - poor souls - have little idea that they are being milked." he further lashed a tthe Indian media for hyping John ."In India, where the media lives by the sound bite, Buchanan is a regular. If the Indian media had not made him out to be a 'super coach', he would have been just another failed former cricketer making a living telling international players to do what he couldn't at the first-class level."

It all started when John Buchanan porposed muultiple captain theory for Kolkata knight Riders.He even tried to defend his decision,and tried to play safe by saying that he still has confidence on Ganguly."In fact it could actually be of benefit to someone like him because it could free him up for his batting, when he just needs to his batting or for his fielding when he just needs to do his fielding or when he needs to just do his bowling without the burden of the twenty-over format on his shoulders. At the same stage we might be asking him to make some key decisions for us.It has nothing to do with Sourav Ganguly whatsoever. It has everything to do with how I perceive the 20-over game andwhat the demands are running that game should be.Once on the field, we have some very good leaders there in Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, Brad Hodge and Sourav Ganguly.The laws of the game state that you need a captain for certain formal roles, such as the coin toss, but that aside, I see there is scope to challenge the way teams have been run in the past."This is more like how Ric Charlesworth runs the Australian women's hockey team. Everyone takes a leadership role."

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