Sunil Gavaskar clears the air about his association with the new IPL team

A newspaper report says that you "helped the Kochi franchise to pull off a stunning coup in the last IPL auction in March." How do you react to this?
The consortium was the second highest bidder after the Sahara Group and so they won the Kochi franchise. I had nothing to do with the decision to put the bid amount, so it is a bit of an exaggeration to suggest that I helped them pull off a stunning coup. How could I do so if I was in the dark about how much the bid amount was going to be?