Sunil Gavaskar walked out in the 1981 Melbourne Test on a 'get lost' comment

Legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has opened up now on why he decided to walk out of the ground with his fellow opener Chetan Chauhan in a test match which was played 40 years ago.

The incident had taken place in 1981 in Melbourne Test between India and Australia. India’s tour to Australia had witnessed many controversies the.

The decision to walk out was one of them which turned out to be an infamous one.

It looked like one of the deliveries of Dennis Lillee, one of Australia’s legendary bowler, had hit Gavaskar’s pad, and the umpire Rex Whitehead raised his finger. He was given out.

Gavaskar opened up his both arms in a gesture of protest that he was not out. He suggested that the ball hit the bat first before hitting the bad. But the umpire completely ignored his protest and didn’t react at all.

Gavaskar earlier had said that he regrated his decision to walk out of the ground with Chauhan.

In a recent show on 7Cricekt, the Australian official broadcaster, Gavaskar said that what prompted him to take along Chetan Chauhan to the pavilion was a comment from the Australian cricketer to “get lost.”

The 40-year-old video footage of the cricket match shows that Gavaskar was on the way to the change-room but then he turned around and insisted Chetan Chauhan to return to the pavilion.

Gavaskar on the show said that the misconception was that he was upset at the lbw decision. It is for the first time in 40 years he had made this revelation.