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Two of India’s biggest personalities, one each from India’s two most popular fields - Bollywood and Cricket, came to loggerheads today. After former India skipper and cricket player, Sunil Gavaskar hit out at the “multiple captains” theory being mulled over by the IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders coach John Buchanan, team owner Shahrukh Khan came to the rescue of his beleagured coach.

While Gavaskar, with over 10000 runs in test cricket, was well within his rights to express his views on the newly fangled multiple captain theory he may have crossed the line while hitting Buchanan below the belt. He accussed the former Australia coach of giving plum assignments with the Kolkata Knight Riders Team to many of his Queensland friends and relatives, including one job to his son Michael Buchanan. Gavaskar remarked that John Buchanan was taking the owners of the IPL team for a ride. Bollywood Star Shahrukh Khan is one of the co-owners of this IPL team alongwith Juhi Chawla and her husband Jai Mehta.

Sunny’s intentions may have been noble and perhaps he was trying to caution Shahrukh Khan but SRK really had no other option but to come out and defend his coach with the 2nd edition of the IPL Twenty20 Championship scheduled to begin in less than two weeks time. SRK lauded Gavaskar’s accomplishments in the field of cricket before lashing out at the former India opener for trying to meddle in the affairs of his team. SRK said that Gavaskar had never played a T20 match himself, and this format of the game called for the implementation of new ideas. The bollywood star went on to say that if Sunny wanted to implemented his ideas, he should have thought of buying a team himself - reaffirming who was the boss, as far as the Kolkata Knight Riders were concerned.