Gautam Gambhir smokes Star Sports for instigating hatred before RCB vs KKR

Kolkata Knight Riders mentor Gautam Gambhir has clapped back at official IPL broadcasters Star Sports for using his old clips to gain massive TRP.

Gautam Gambhir made a fiery statement against the channel for resurfacing the video in which he talks about beating RCB all the time, even in his dreams. That particular video was run by Star Sports across their social media handles before Kolkata Knight Riders' clash against Bengaluru twice this season. And in both of their meetings, KKR had come out on top.

What did Gautam Gambhir say to bash Star Sports?

While speaking to Sportskeeda recently, Gautam Gambhir had spoke on a variety of topics from Pandya's captaincy to KKR's performance in IPL 2024. In that interview, he was also asked to shed light on the video which went viral before Kolkata's fixtures against Bengaluru this season.

The video is at least 6-7 years old (if not more) where Gautam Gambhir had bashed the RCB franchise for acting as if they are the most successful in IPL. Gambhir had also claimed that Bengaluru is the only team he wants to beat everytime, even in his dreams.

That they have a flamboyant team and the most aggressive batting unit, so beating them might as well used to give Gambhir, a different feeling. The most viral part was when he said, "If one thing I want out of my IPL career or one thing I would love to have is - again go on the cricket field and beat RCB."

When he was asked to shed light on the video, Gautam Gambhir highlighted that it's actually a very old video which has been run on innumerous occasions. Gambhir then cryptically admitted that Star Sports does that to generate TRP and that he has no issues with the channel wanting a large share of PR using the video.

"Actually, I had said that many years ago. But that clip has been shown so many times. It's okay, people want TRP, fair enough. They can have their TRP. They can have whatever share of PR, whatever they want." - Gambhir said via Sportskeeda.

Gambhir says his statement has been twisted

Gautam Gambhir then said that he wanted to beat RCB everytime all because they were a quality opposition but it's not just RCB that he wanted to beat. The former left-hand batter stated that every cricketer dreams of beating the best team in a competition and that should actually be the case as well.

Gambhir lastly claimed that his statement was twisted in an uncanny manner and the reality is that he wants to beat the other 9 IPL teams and they want to beat KKR too.

"In that clip, I had said they (RCB) have quality and I wanted to beat them. Even today, I want to beat them, but it is not just RCB, honestly. I want to defeat all 9 teams. All 9 teams want to defeat us."

"In the end, there will be only 1 winner, but to give such a twist to it that I want to beat them in my dreams. I want to beat every team even in my dreams." - Gambhir concluded.