Sunil Gavaskar, former captain of the Indian cricket team, great batsman and currently Hindi commentary master, has predicted about the ongoing 3-match Test series between India and South Africa. According to Sunil Gavaskar’s prediction, this time in the tour of South Africa, Virat Sena can create history.
Legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar believes that the Indian team will clean sweep in this series. According to ESPNcricinfo.com, Gavaskar said, “Given the way Indian Time has been performing for the last 6-8 months, the result of the series will be 3-0 in their favour. There is no doubt that the Indian team is facing the weakest team of South Africa ever (India vs South Africa Test Series, 2021-2022).
Apart from this, ‘Little Master’ Sunil Gavaskar also talked about the biggest achievement of the former head coach of the Indian team Ravi Shastri during his coaching tenure. He discussed the Indian team’s historic tour of Australia in 2020-21, in which India defeated Australia tremendously in the series.
It is worth noting that in the 2020-21 tour of Australia, Team India scored only 36 runs in the ‘Pink Ball Test Match’ (Pink Ball Test Match India vs Australia Adelaide) played at the Adelaide Ground (Adelaide Oval Test India vs Australia, 2020-2021). But it had collapsed. But, making a comeback in the subsequent matches, India trounced Australia under the captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane and created history by winning the series. Sunil Gavaskar said, “The way Shastri inspired the players (Team India), it was fantastic.”
Gavaskar said, “The way the Indian team came back after being all-out (Adelaide Test Match India vs Australia) on the score of 36 runs, it must be discussed. Usually when this happens the team loses faith in itself. The team gets very disappointed. She accepts defeat.”
He further added, “At the same time, Ravi Shastri played his part because from what I have read he said, ‘Wear these 36 runs as a badge’. Sunil Gavaskar also praised Ajinkya Rahane for that tour of Australia and called it a brilliant captaincy.
Recalling the tour of Australia, legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, who is considered to be the Bhishma Pitamah of the cricket world, said, “All the players of the team also made their contribution. Many of our key players were not available, but whoever was in that team (India vs Australia Test Series 2020-2021), they all did a great job. This shows how much influence the former coach (Ravi Shastri Former Coach Team India) had on the young players.”
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