Cricket / Sunil Gavaskar faces criticism on social media for distasteful comment on Shimron Hetmyer

Cricket | Former Indian cricket team captain and great batsman Sunil Gavaskar has once again been embroiled in controversies. There is now a demand to remove Gavaskar from IPL commentary. Former captain Gavaskar has once again come under attack from critics for making a scathing comment about the wife of Rajasthan Royals (RR) explosive batsman Shimron Hetmyer. Gavaskar is now facing criticism after his controversial statement.

Rajasthan Royals (RR) face Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Friday in IPL 2022. In this match, batting first, Chennai scored 150 runs for 6 wickets. In reply, Rajasthan got off to a good start. But after that the team seemed to be stuck. In such a situation, West Indies' explosive batsman Shimron Hetmyer came to the crease to bat. Now everyone is criticizing the former captain a lot for the comment Gavaskar made as soon as Hetmyer came to the crease.

What did Gavaskar say?

In fact, Hetmyer missed a few matches for Rajasthan due to the birth of his first child and returned home. But he made a comeback in the playing XI against Chennai and came out to bat. Hetmyer came out to bat in the 15th over of Rajasthan's innings. During this, Gavaskar was doing commentary in English. As soon as Hetmyer came to the crease, Gavaskar commented, 'Shimran Hetmyer's wife has delivered. Will Hetmyer now deliver for Rajasthan?

Fans scolded Gavaskar on social media

After this remark of Gavaskar, fans are now fiercely lashing and criticizing him on social media. Some fans are also demanding to remove him from the commentary. However, Hetmyer could not do anything special in this match and was dismissed after scoring six runs in 7 balls. He was caught out by Prashant Solanki. Gavaskar had earlier commented about Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma in IPL 2020 and even then they were heavily criticized.