Sydney:
Gavaskar’s big statement: All the fans, including former cricketers, are deeply hurt by Team India’s 3-1 defeat in the Border-Gavaskar series. Now that the performance review has started, the resentment of the veterans has also started coming to the fore. Sunny Gavaskar is most angry, who was in Australia for continuous commentary. Now Sunny has said that Team India needs players like Jaiswal and Nitish Reddy, who are hungry to earn name for India.
Jaiswal has scored 391 runs in five Test matches, 161 of which came in his brilliant second innings in the series opener in Perth, where India won by 295 runs. However, he had to struggle for some time before scoring 82 and 84 runs in the Melbourne Test. Reddy, on the other hand, scored 298 runs in nine innings of five matches. He played brilliant innings of 41 and 38 not out in his first test match. He scored 42, 42 before bettering it in Melbourne by scoring his maiden Test century, providing a much-needed contribution from the lower order.
“If we talk about the bigger picture, we saw with Nitish Kumar Reddy and Yashasvi Jaiswal – they are hungry. They are hungry to make a name for India. They are hungry to make a name for themselves,” Gavaskar said after the Sydney Test defeat. You need players who protect their wickets like they do, but I want to see commitment. .”
Speaking to Star Sports, Gavaskar further spoke about the shortcomings of India’s batting and said, “How many Indian players have scored centuries? Apart from the two centuries in the first Test match, only Nitish Kumar Reddy has a century. How many players have scored half-centuries?” ?, he said, “You can say that scoring a century is not easy, but how many players have scored half-centuries and tried to turn the match? It did not happen because of the kind of practice required in Test cricket – practice and Strong Resolve – it was very little.”
He said, “What I saw were technical shortcomings. If you keep making the same mistakes, and I’m not just talking about this series – I’m talking about the New Zealand series as well – then what did you do against New Zealand in India? And that’s why now, since the next cycle will start in June, we have to be prepared for it if we have to take tough decisions. Will be.”