Thread: Shah Rukh Khan lashes back at Gavaskar

Shah Rukh Khan, owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders, has hit back at Sunil Gavaskar over his comments about franchise coach John Buchanan, and asked Gavaskar to stay away from issues concerning his IPL team.

In his column for the Hindustan Times, Gavaskar termed Buchanan a "failed former cricketer making a living telling international players to do what he couldn't do". It has not gone down well with the IPL franchise, which last week tried to put a lid on the controversy generated by Buchanan's theory of multiple captains by releasing a statement that during a game the team would resort to a group of "strategists" who would report to one on-field captain while making decisions.

Khan has come to Buchanan's defence, saying there was a marked difference in the time Gavaskar played and now. "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."

Gavaskar was scathing of Buchanan in his column, saying the former Australian coach had a way with words in India, a country Gavaskar said had few people capable of defusing opinion makers. "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."

Gavaskar also said the Indian media granted unwarranted importance to Buchanan. "In India, where the media lives by the sound bite, Buchanan is a regular," he wrote. "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."

Buchanan's radical theory had stirred a controversy on the eve of the team's departure to South Africa, forcing a nearly four-hour long meeting between Buchanan, Sourav Ganguly, Khan and Jai Mehta, who owns a stake in the team, in Mumbai. A subsequent statement released by Kolkata stressed that there would be only one captain, who would be fed with suggestions from this core group of strategists.

What a lame comment by Mr Khan... Specially this...

"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."

I mean come on he(Gavaskar) always know better cricket than Mr Khan... Your comments guys...



Source: Cricinfo

I'm speechless.....

the comments are disappointing

I never expect such comment from Shah Rukh Khan.May be he is owner he can do anything with his team but how he can said that this new format of game(T20) SRK & John Buchanan know better than Gavaskar.Just check the record of John Buchanan he has played only few first class matches for Queensland with horrible record and also when he was coach of Australian team that time mainly Australia played ODI and test matches not T20 so it is new format for Buchanan also.
IPL is the ultimate business of cricket where such persons came just for money and popularity nothing with sports for them because most of the Indian sports conditions are not so good and also lots of sports person are still in deep economical trouble but sorry to say where we hardly get such owner.

Keep it up SRK with your coach Buchanan :24:

Originally Posted by rupu1983

I never expect such comment from Shah Rukh Khan

Publicity and money kya kya nahi karwati

Originally Posted by rupu1983

Keep it up SRK with your coach Buchanan :24:

:lol:

yep thats true... Money makes many things...! :lol:

well it is Dada's own mistake that he finds himself in this situation. Last time he recommended a Australian coach he got himself kicked out of the Indian team and right now it seems like he is headed down the same path...... ..
On a more serious note. SRK is trying to defend a most foolish and idiotic suggestion made by the honourable Mr. John Buchanan. Rather than standing by his own countryman (Dada) he is supporting a foreigner of what can be only termed as a dubious distinction who is seriously undermining Dada's authority. Come on Mr. SRK whose instincts are you going to trust a player whose career records read as under
Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 113 188 17 7212 239 42.17 14070 51.25 16 35 900 57 71 0
ODIs 311 300 23 11363 183 41.02 15416 73.70 22 72 1122 190 100 0
First-class 242 383 43 14933 239 43.92 31 85 165 0
List A 426 410 42 15278 183 41.51 31 94 130 0
Twenty20 31 30 2 726 91 25.92 657 110.50 0 4 80 24 11 0


Bowling averages
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 113 99 3117 1681 32 3/28 3/37 52.53 3.23 97.4 0 0 0
ODIs 311 171 4561 3849 100 5/16 5/16 38.49 5.06 45.6 1 2 0
First-class 242 10968 6040 164 6/46 36.82 3.30 66.8 4 0
List A 426 7949 6454 168 5/16 5/16 38.41 4.87 47.3 4 2 0
Twenty20 31 24 417 521 25 3/27 3/27 20.84 7.49 16.6 0 0 0

Or a player whose track record reads as follows. A track record (if u can call it that) which ends before it starts.
Batting and fielding averages Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
First-class 7 13 0 160 41 12.30 0 0 5 0
List A 1 1 0 64 64 64.00 0 1 1 0


Bowling averages Mat Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
First-class 7 32 15 0 - - - 2.81 - 0 0 0
List A 1 12 11 0 - - - 5.50 - 0 0 0

Mr. SRK please visit cricinfo which is the source for the above statistics.

that's a pathetic comment from SRK.