Sunil Gavaskar fumes on air as Virat Kohli rants about poor strike: They say we don't care about outside noise but...

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ALSO READ: 'What Maxwell can do, Kohli cannot': Gautam Gambhir speaks on RCB batter's strike-rate controversy "Commentators questioned only when the strike rate was 118. I'm not too sure. I don't watch too many matches, so I don't know what the other commentators have said otherwise.

But if you have a strike of 118 and then you get out in the 14th or the 15th with a strike-rate of 118, I mean, if you want applause for that, that's a little bit different. That's different," Hindustan Times quoted Gavaskar as saying. Apart from this, Gavaskar also lambasted Kohli for his hypocrisy in responding to critics.

However, he added that the commentators don't work with hidden agendas and are just doing their job. ALSO READ: Watch | Virat Kohli's 'arrogant' remark on commentators critical of his strike rate; netizens not impressed "All these guys talk about, oh we don't care about outside noise. Then why are you replying to any outside noise or whatever it is.

We all played a bit of cricket, not a lot of cricket. We don't have agendas. We speak about what we see.

We don't necessarily have any likes and dislikes. Even if we have likes and dislikes, we actually speak on what is happening," said Gavaskar. To silence his critics, who commented over his strike rate, Kohli had said, "All the people who talk about strike rates and me not playing spin well are the ones who love talking about this stuff.