‘Foot-licking of the highest quality’: Sunil Gavaskar sends strong warning to Gautam Gambhir supporters

New Delhi: Sunil Gavaskar, a legend of Indian cricket, credited Rohit Sharma for the national team’s aggressive approach at some stage within the 2d Test match against Bangladesh. Despite three rain-affected days in Kanpur, Rohit led the team to victory with an assertive kind of play. The bowlers dismissed Bangladesh twice in two days, while the batters broke five records in a single day. Gavaskar dismissed the term ‘Gamball,’ noting that Gautam Gambhir never played in such an attacking manner and argued that the approach should instead be named after Rohit.

“As seen in India last year, this approach doesn’t work in Test matches and can surprise the opposition for a game or two at best. While one paper referred to as the Indian batting “Bossball” since the captain or “boss” of the team, Rohit, had shown the way, some from the old powers referred to it as “Gamball” after the Indian coach, Gautam Gambhir,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar.

Sunil Gavaskar emphasized the variation in batting approaches between England and India, mentioning, “While the England batting approach changed completely less than the new regime of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, we have seen during the last couple of years that Rohit has been batting like this and inspiring his team to do so that you can boot.” He highlighted that Rohit Sharma’s aggressive style has been consistent, even earlier than England’s transformation less than Stokes and McCullum.

“Gambhir has only been coaching for a couple of months, so attributing this method to him is foot-licking of 1 of the best quality. Gambhir himself infrequently batted on this fashion like McCullum used to do. If any credit is due, this is miles solely to Rohit and no one else.”

“In place of the use of the words this-ball or that-ball, I might suggest the use of the skipper’s first name, Rohit, and term it the “Gohit” approach. Expectantly, brainier people offer you a trendier name for this in place of the lazy option of calling it after “Bazball,” the former India skipper added.