“Sunil Gavaskar Wasn’t The Best India Captain But…”: Shashi Tharoor Makes Interesting Observation | Cricket News

Indian cricket has seen many nice captains who took the sport to the subsequent degree. Be it the terrific Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi or Ajit Wadekar or Sourav Ganguly, each one left an indelible mark on the game. However, in terms of most profitable Indian captains, two names which come first to the thoughts are Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni. Both achieved nice success by profitable World Cups as India skippers. The Indian Board has usually given the captaincy armbands to batting and bowling greats too. Bishan Singh Bedi, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli are a part of that checklist. They achieved success as captain in various levels.

Talking about Gavaskar – the India captain, Shashi Tharoor, Congress chief and Member of Parliament, made an attention-grabbing statement on Wednesday: “Sunil Gavaskar wasn’t the best captain India (cricket team) had, but he wasn’t too bad.”

He made the feedback throughout the launch of former BCCI General Manager Amrit Mathur’s e-book: “Pitchside: My life in Indian cricket”

Gavaskar led India in 47 Tests, from 1975 to 1985. Under him India received 9 matches, drew 30 and misplaced eight video games. He additionally led in 37  ODIs, out of which India received 14 matches and misplaced 21.

Gavaskar has been recognized to be simple along with his observations. He was lately crucial of the Indian crew administration after the loss within the World Test Championship last.

“The selectors and board should be asking questions, ‘Why did you field first (at WTC final)?. Okay, it was explained at the toss that it was overcast and all. The question after that should be, you didn’t know about Travis Head’s weakness against the short ball?” Gavaskar mentioned at The Indian Express Idea Exchange.

“Why was the bouncer employed only when he had scored 80 runs. You know, the moment Head came into the bat, in the commentary box, we had Ricky Ponting saying, ‘Bounce him, bounce him.’ Everyone knew about it but we didn’t try. Mind you, if I was in the commentary box, I would never tell anyone about an India player’s weakness. This is where the selection committee should be calling both captain and coach and asking, ‘Hello, what happened?’.”