{"id":19796,"date":"2021-01-09T05:08:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=19796"},"modified":"2021-01-09T08:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T08:05:36","slug":"tv-stars-cringeworthy-mix-up-of-indian-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=19796","title":{"rendered":"TV star's cringeworthy mix-up of Indian greats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Channel 7 presenter James Brayshaw has confused Sunil Gavaskar for Sachin Tendulkar in an embarrassing on air blunder during the SCG Test between Australia and India.<\/p>\n

Brayshaw was attempting to welcome a new commentary team to the action but mixed up his Indian cricket legends in an awkward TV moment.<\/p>\n

Gavaskar, the batting great and former captain, is in Australia as one of 7's expert commentators.<\/p>\n

The legendary Tendulkar most certainly is not.<\/p>\n

\"Hazlewood<\/p>\n

Here's how it went down.<\/p>\n

"Sachin Tendulkar, welcome, and also Damien Fleming," Brayshaw began, to the bemusement of Fleming.<\/p>\n

"Sachin Tendulkar's in the commentary box?" Fleming inquired.<\/p>\n

"We were just talking about him (Tendulkar)," Brayshaw replied.<\/p>\n

"The great man, the little master," Fleming continued.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

"My apologies Sunil, we were just talking…," Brayshaw said as he attempted to save face.<\/p>\n

"I am flattered, I am flattered to be called Sachin Tendulkar," Gavaskar said to ease the tension a bit.<\/p>\n

"We were just talking about him a second ago," Brayshaw said again, but social media is not often forgiving.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/schnozzman\/status\/1347748093320523778?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/akhtar1974\/status\/1347749796480655362?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gordicans\/status\/1347748866313973764?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n

Australia is building a large lead as they bat in their second innings on day three.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Channel 7 presenter James Brayshaw has confused Sunil Gavaskar for Sachin Tendulkar in an embarrassing on air blunder during the SCG Test between Australia and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19798,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions\/19798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}