Umpire Simon Taufel backs Hardik Pandya, Lokesh Rahul

TIL Desk Sports/ Australian umpiring great Simon Taufel on Monday backed under-fire cricketers Hardik Pandya and Lokesh Rahul, calling for the issue to be handled with care as everyone makes mistakes and it is important to learn from them.

Chastised from every corner for their alleged “misogynistic” comments about women on a television show, the tainted pair have been suspended by the BCCI and have returned home midway from the tour of Australia to explain themselves.

In the city as the special guest for a local cricket league — the Silver Oak Estate Cricket League — Taufel was asked about his opinion on the issue that has taken the nation by storm.

“I knew this question was going to come up. Look what I would say in every team and in every business and every sport, is that good people make a good team. And that we all make mistakes from time to time. We all learn as we go,” Taufel, 47, told.