India, Dec. 18 -- Sunil Gavaskar has waded into the Kolkata Messi storm with an argument that flips the lens away from organisers and vIP cuture and back on Lionel Messi's own commitment.

Writing for Sportsstar, the former India captain said the Salt Lake Stadium episode was quickly framed as an Indian failure, even though the first question should have been simpler: did the main attraction deliver what he was meant to?

Sunil Gavaskar starts with the mismatch between what the fans expected and what they got. "Even the recent episode at the Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata, where the Argentinian footballer, Lionel Messi, made a far shorter appearance than promised, was blamed on everyone except the person who failed to honour his commitment,...