Sunil Gavaskar on Team India Test Captain: Team India faced a 3-1 defeat against Australia in the Border Gavaskar Trophy, after which a debate broke out regarding the Test captain of Team India. Team India, in the absence of its permanent captain Rohit Sharma, under the captaincy of fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, achieved a historic victory in Perth and created history by winning in Perth after 16 years. After this, captain Rohit returned in the second test but Team India lost the second test by 10 wickets.
After this, Team India was successful in drawing the third test against Australia but again India had to face a crushing defeat in the last two tests, Team India played the last test under the captaincy of Bumrah. During this time, questions were also raised on the captaincy of Rohit Sharma because there was never a right strategy regarding the playing 11. After this, the form of captain Rohit also remained under question due to which he himself kept himself away from the last test, due to which there was an uproar. Why did Rohit take such a decision in such an important match and after that the news of his retirement from Test cricket also came out, regarding which Rohit Sharma in his statement termed it wrong to think about any such decision.
Sunil Gavaskar said about India’s next test captain
India’s great batsman Sunil Gavaskar (Sunil Gavaskar Picks Jasprit Bumrah as Next Test Captain) said that he would not be surprised if fast bowling leader Jasprit Bumrah becomes the Test captain of the team in the near future. But when they are, they do not put much pressure on the players. Recently, in India’s 3-1 defeat against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Bumrah captained the visiting team in two matches, one of which was the 295-run series opener in Perth. “He will be the next player because he leads from the front. He is very good as a captain, but he is not a person who is going to put pressure on you. Sometimes you have captains who put a lot of pressure on you.
“With Bumrah you can see that he expects others to do their job, that’s why they are in the national team, but he doesn’t put pressure on anyone. With the fast bowlers, he has been absolutely brilliant, standing at mid-off, mid-on and ready to tell them every time. I think he was absolutely brilliant, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he takes over the reins very soon,” Gavaskar said on Channel Seven on Wednesday.
Performance-wise, Bumrah was the star of India’s tour, taking 32 wickets in five matches at an average of 13.06 and a strike rate of 28.37, and won the Player of the Series award. Gavaskar feels that if Bumrah had bowled in the fourth innings of the match, things could have been a little different for India in Sydney.
(With IANS inputs)
