Taufel lends support to Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul | Photo Credit: AP

Former Australian umpire Simon Taufel has supported the Indian cricketing duo of Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul, who has been suspended pending inquiry following their ‘sexist’ and ‘derogatory’ comments on the show Koffee With Karan. Taufel has said that everyone makes mistake from time to time and they learn from every mistake as they grow. Taufel then gave his own example by saying that he himself has made plenty of mistakes in his life and has learned a lot from them.

Both Hardik and Rahul received plenty of criticism since the episode went on air as they spoke about women, their party lives and much more. Since then, the duo has been called back from the ongoing tour of Australia and has been replaced for the upcoming series against New Zealand.

"I knew this question was going to come up,” said Taufel, who was in Kolkata as a chief guest of the local Silver Oak estate Cricket League.

"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. Although I didn't see the show, I have read a little bit of press about some of the complaints. I have made plenty of mistakes in my career and I have learned along the way,” the former umpire added.

Taufel went on to say that people should be careful about being overly critical as everyone makes mistakes in their lives and added that people will learn from this event including Hardik and Rahul.

"These players may have made some mistakes with some of the things that they have said. But they too will learn and all the other players and all the other people that have seen this event will also learn. So I think we really need to be careful about being overly critical. People do make mistakes but if we learn from those and we are genuine about wanting to do better, and commit to doing better then that's a good thing,” Taufel said.