India, Aug. 13 -- Former India cricket team captain Sunil Gavaskar has come in support of badminton legend Prakash Padukone after he called for players to take responsibility in the wake of India not clinching a single Olympic medal in badminton at the Paris Games for the first time since 2008. Padukone's comment came after Lakshya Sen squandered not one, but two back-to-back opportunities to script history in Paris Olympics.

Lakshya stood on the verge of becoming the first-ever Indian male shuttler to bag an Olympic medal after he made semis, where he soared to a seven-point lead, before losing against eventual gold medallist Viktor Axelsen. On the next day, in the bronze-medal face-off against Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia, Lakshya won the op...