After Congress spokesperson Shama Mohammed raised questions on Rohit Sharma's fitness and captaincy, many cricketers and politicians supported the Indian captain and now former captain Sunil Gavaskar has also given his opinion on this matter. Gavaskar also supported Rohit and said that skinny boys are for modeling and in cricket, mental strength matters, not physical size.

Congress spokesperson commented on Rohit's fitness.

Congress spokesperson Dr. Shama Mohammed shared a post on social media during the match between India and New Zealand on Sunday. In this post, the Congress leader wrote that 'Rohit Sharma is a fat player! He needs to lose weight. He is undoubtedly the most ineffective captain India has ever had.' After this, the controversy escalated and the Congress spokesperson was heavily criticized, after which she was forced to delete her post from X. Congress also distanced itself from Shama's comment and requested her to delete the post.

Gavaskar gave the example of Sarfaraz.
Gavaskar reminded that Mumbai batsman Sarfaraz Khan also faced body shaming, but it did not affect his performance. Gavaskar said, I have always said that if you want only skinny boys, then you should go to a modeling competition and choose all the models. It is not related to that.
Gavaskar said it is about how well you can play cricket. We talked about Sarfaraz Khan, he was maligned for a long time because he is overweight. But he scores 150 runs for India in a Test match and after that scores more than 50 runs two or three times, so what is the problem with that? I don't think size has anything to do with it. It is about your mental strength, can you last for a long time? That is the most important thing. Bat well, bat for a long time, and score runs.

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