After Adam Gilchrist's remarks over Sachin Tendulkar's honesty on the famous ''Monkeygate'' issue provoked angry reactions from Indian cricketing fraternity, the Indian batting maestro said the Australian called him up to clarify the whole issue and added that the matter was blown out of proportion.

Speaking with Times Now, Tendulkar said, “Gilchrist called me up and clarified the whole matter.”

“He said his comments have been taken out of context,” added Tendulkar. However, the master-blaster batsman refused to comment any further on the issue.

Gilchrist had said that Tendulkar first told the hearing that he could not hear anything that happened between Andrew Symonds and Harbhajan Singh. But he added that Tendulkar later came to say that he did hear Harbhajan saying something to Symonds in Hindi which sounded like ''Monkey''.

The former Aussie vice-captain also secured Tendulkar that he will soon issue a clarification on this issue.

In his soon-to-be published autobiography, “True Colors of My Life”, the former wicketkeeper had called Sachin Tendulkar with names like a ''liar'', ''dishonest'', ''sore loser'' and a ''bad sport''.