# Every player tries to be a role model: Sunil Gavaskar 2026-08-17T00:21:37+00:00 | Sports | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar said every player aspires to be a role model as they rise through the ranks, but it is human to occasionally fail those standards. Speaking at the launch of Midwicket Stories in Mumbai, he did not refer to any specific incident from this year's Indian Premier League. Gavaskar noted that social media spreads the fallout of such moments far faster than before. "In the heat of the moment things happen... anybody can snap," he said. He recalled the tradition of players from opposing teams sharing drinks and discussing the day's play after a Test match, a practice he compared to modern IPL players interacting post-match. ## Coverage - millenniumpost.in This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: IPL, Mumbai, Sunil Gavaskar Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/every-player-tries-to-be-a-role-model-sunil-gavaskar/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/every-player-tries-to-be-a-role-model-sunil-gavaskar/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/