When Shah Rukh Khan clapped back at Sunil Gavaskar for saying he doesn’t know how to run KKR, said, ‘You buy a team, you run it’: IPL turns 18

He said that one has to learn how to lose with respect when they play a sport. “You got to take sport as sport. Yeah it’s disappointing and yes, it makes you angry. At a personal level, in your room, say what you want but in a larger context, I think sports needs to develop the first thing – the sense of learning how to lose but not becoming losers,” he said.

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In 2009, Sunil criticised Buchanan’s multiple skipper theory and wrote for The Telegraph, “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.” He also added, “The owners – poor souls – have little idea that they are being milked.”

Shah Rukh responded at a promotional event and said, “Maine paisa kharch kiya yaar, bahut passion hai (I have spent the money, there’s too much passion). If you have a problem, you can buy your own (team) and run it the way you want.”

A few days later, SRK apologised to Gavaskar and told PTI, “If Gavaskar asks me to walk on my head and run the team, I would. Anything that Gavaskar says that has to do with cricket, if he mentions, should be followed.” He shared that he even wrote an apology letter to Gavaskar and shared, “I have not said anything against Gavaskar. I just wanted to have a breathing space to try something new. I have sent him an apology letter if he felt so because he was in America that time.”