Former Team India captain Sunil Gavaskar came down heavily on fans who gave credit for the Kanpur Test to Gautam Gambhir. Gavaskar says it has only been a few months since Gambhir arrived, so it is not right to give him credit for this victory. Little Master has asked to attribute the credit for India’s aggressive victory to Rohit Sharma, who has been playing cricket in the same style for a long time and is also helping the Indian team.
India vs Bangladesh: Despite rain for almost two and a half days of the second Test, Team India managed to win the Kanpur Test by 7 wickets. India batted aggressively in this match. Seeing this batting of the Indian team, everyone started comparing it with baseball. Many fans also called it ‘Gameball’ after Gautam Gambhir. Although Sunil Gavaskar is not in favor of this.
Sunil Gavaskar, in a column for The Hindu, wrote: “Unfortunately, while the batting was exciting and fresh, the names given to the approaches were the same as ever. Just like in the United States after the Watergate scandal 50 years ago , now Any Con is called this gate or that gate, in the same way that India’s batting approach was called this ball and that ball when the term “baazball” was coined for the England team’s batting approach. ” is the nickname of his coach, the New Zealander Brendon McCullum, who batted exactly the same as his team.
He further wrote: “While one newspaper called Indian batting “Bossball” because team captain or “boss” Rohit led the way, some old-timers called it “Gamball” after Indian coach Gautam Gambhir. While England’s batting style has completely changed under the new regime of Ben Stokes and McCullum, we have seen over the years that Rohit has been batting like this and encouraging his team to do the same. It’s only been a few months since Gambhir started training, so giving him credit for this approach is finger-licking good. Gambhir himself rarely batted like McCullum did. If any credit is to be given, it should be given only to Rohit and no one else.”
