Don’t be jealous and focus on your work' - Fans lash out at Gautam Gambhir for his remarks MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli

Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir is once again on the receiving end of the criticism from the fans of former Indian skippers MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli. Recently, Gambhir made a statement targeting Virat and Dhoni when he was in a conversation with The Indian Express. Gambhir went on to question the culture of ‘hero worship’ in the Indian cricketing scenario for a few cricketers specifically.

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“Do you think that this whole hero worship chokes the next star to come up? Nobody has grown in that shadow. It was Mahendra Singh Dhoni earlier, it is Virat Kohli now,” Gambhir was quoted as saying to The Indian Express.

Although, his statement didn’t go down well with the fans of both the veterans and they slammed him on the social media platform Twitter. Fans lashed out at Gambhir and happened to say that he is jealous of the caliber of both Indian greats.

Here’s how fans reacted to the statement from Gautam Gambhir:

Dear @GautamGambhir no one builds the popularity of @msdhoni or @imVkohli but their performance does. So, don’t be jealous and focus on your work.#INDvsAUS #BCCI #KingKohli

— Dipayan Chakraborty (@Dipayan_25) September 19, 2022

Gautam gambhir has problem with hero worshipping, and he was indirectly talking about players like him who doesn't get fandom like Virat kohli and MS Dhoni, my question is to him that why tf he doesn't become a hero so that he also can get worshipped like others.

— Vishnu 🕉 (@MasterVKohli) September 19, 2022

@GautamGambhir is just slamming this hero worship shit regarding Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni cause he wasn’t worshipped during his tenure when he played a wonderful innings in the world cup final but the fact Dhoni played a wonderful match winning innings too was given an upper hand pic.twitter.com/KnYk8sRXvv

— Yash Sharma (@___yashhsharma) September 19, 2022

Gautam Gambhir When will you understand what is the level of Virat Kohli and what is his fan following, only MS Dhoni can match Virat Kohli stardom @GautamGambhir

— kd🥤 (@Kohlistaro) September 19, 2022

Speaking of Virat Kohli, then he came back strongly in excellent form with the bat during the recently-concluded Asia Cup 2022. The 33-year-old smashed a swashbuckling century against Afghanistan in India’s last super-4 match during the continental tournament. The right-hander played a magnificent century-knock of 122 runs off 61 balls with 12 boundaries and six massive sixes to his name.

He ended up as the second highest run-scorer in the tournament just five runs behind the star Pakistani batter Mohammad Rizwan. The Delhi batter scored 276 runs in five innings of the five matches with an amazing average of 92.00 having a century and two half-centuries on his credit.

Now, he will be seen in action for the Indian team in the upcoming T20I series against Australia. The first match of the series will be played at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium today from 7.30 PM.