India, May 25 -- Legendary Sunil Gavaskar on Sunday said every player tries to become a role model while rising through the ranks but it is only human to fail to live up to the standards at times.

Without touching upon any specific incident that has happened in this year's Indian Premier League, Gavaskar said social media tools carry information and messages to the general public much sooner than in the past.

"In the heat of the moment things happen, it is not that you teach youngsters anything, anybody can snap, (and) that is what happens," Gavaskar told reporters at the launch of Midwicket Stories here.

"Everybody tries to be, once you start getting up there, to be the best role model that they can be. That is just how you're brought...