Editing Sunil Gavaskar (section)

== Controversies ==
On 25 March 2008, [[Malcolm Speed]], ICC chief executive, told Gavaskar "very clearly", during a meeting between the two at [[Dubai]], that he would have to quit his post at the ICC if he failed to give up his job of commentator and newspaper columnist,<ref name="content-ind.cricinfo.com">[http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/344084.html Gavaskar to decide on future with ICC], 25 March 2008, ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 September 2008.</ref> in which capacity he has frequently criticised his employers and levelled serious accusations of racism. He sparked a controversy in early 2008 for his comments on the contentious [[Second Test, 2007–08 Border–Gavaskar Trophy|Sydney Test match]]: "Millions of Indians want to know if it (match referee [[Mike Procter]]'s verdict against [[Harbhajan Singh]]) was a 'white man' taking the 'white man's' word against that of the 'brown man'. Quite simply, if there was no audio evidence, nor did the officials hear anything, then the charge did not stand."<ref>Quoted in Brown 2008.</ref> Despite the fact that Gavaskar's comment referenced Mike Procter and not the ICC, Australian writer [[Gideon Haigh]] said that, if Gavaskar genuinely believed this, "then he should almost certainly resign, for if the ICC is a bastion of 'white man's justice', Gavaskar bears some of the blame for having failed to change it.