Cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar has warned a website to take legal action against a website for publishing a misleading article attributed to him during the first Test between India and Australia at the Optus Stadium in Perth. The website, Cricket Ception, posted a column on Friday evening under Gavaskar’s name, titled, "A New Era in Leadership: Bumrah’s Captaincy and Kohli’s Leadership Revive Team India."
The website published a fake article on Friday evening about Gavaskar hailing India stars Jasprit Bumrah and Virat Kohli. However, the former India captain issues a clarification, saying he has written no such column.
Gavaskar took his Instagram to share the video on Saturday to issue a clarification over a fake article Sharing the video, 1983 World Cup winner wrote, "Never believe everything you see on the Internet #alwaysverify."
In the video, the former India batter said, "Hi, this is Sunil Gavaskar and I want to say that there is a website cricket ception which has printed an article under my name. I have to say that that is completely fake, I have not contributed that at all and I want to tell that website to take it down immediately."
"Issue an apology. If you don't do that immediately, I will give the matter to my legal team. So don't believe a word of what you've read, this is a completely fake article and attributed to me," he added.
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