MUMBAI: Bollywood actor and owner of Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh Khan took a dig at former India Cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar for ridiculing John Buchanan’s multiple-captain theory. King Khan said that he bought the team and would run it the way he wants.

Former Australia Cricket World Cup winning coach Buchanan recently suggested the theory of four captain for the second season of the Indian Premier League that has ruffled a few feathers, including that of former India skipper Sourav Ganguly. Buchanan is the manager of Kolkata Knight Riders.

SRK said today, “I have great respect for Mr Gavaskar. I have grown up enjoying his performance as well as KR Vishwanath and Kapil’s. We all respect him too much but having said that I would like to say that please give it (the multiple-captain theory) a breathing space to try now. If we fail we can always go back to the traditional way.”

Sharukh Khan mentioned that he has spent a lot of money in buying the team and would like to run it as he deems fit.

Sunil Gavaskar criticised Buchanan’s theory in a newspaper column saying too much importance is being accorded to the Australian, who is a failed first-class cricketer and is only trying to get lucrative jobs for “his Queensland pals.”