Virat Kohli-Led Indian Team Fulfilling My Dreams: Sunil Gavaskar

Jan 9, 2019 at 4:10 PM

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Virat Kohli-Led Indian Team Fulfilling My Dreams: Sunil Gavaskar

Hailing the current Indian Test team, former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar has said Virat Kohli-led side is fulfilling his dreams. The Indian team is currently the top-ranked side in the world and are unbeaten in the last 19 Tests.

“What Kohli and his boys have done is amazing. Such a run of Test wins is amazing. They are fulfilling my dreams,” said the Little Master at a program to mark 40th anniversary of his book ‘Sunny Days’.

One of the finest openers to ever play the game, Gavaskar further said he always wanted to bat like former explosive opener Virender Sehwag.

“I always wanted to hit a straight six on the first ball of a Test match. I could do that only once, but Sehwag did that with regularity. He was a class batsman with guts in his batting,” said Gavaskar.

Meanwhile, the batting legend has thrown his support behind T20 cricket. The shortest format of the game is seen as a big threat to Tests but Gavaskar, while saying that Test cricket is still the ultimate stage to judge a player, said T20 cricket has been beneficial for the game.

“In fact T20 has done some fantastic things for the sport and in many ways and raised the profile of the game. T20 offers action all the way through the match, but Test cricket still I believe is the ultimate form to judge a player. T20 has energised One-Day cricket and One-Day cricket in turn has energised Test cricket,” he said.

“The whole game of cricket has changed for better with whole new dimension added to cricket. Now more runs are being scored and there is action all the time,” he added.

He later described winning the 1983 World Cup in England as the best moment of his career. Heaping praise on his captain Kapil Dev, he said:

“The way he bowled on Indian pitches was a learning. He showed the way and now we have a lot of fast bowlers with a great bench strength to replace them in the side. That team had belief in them. We had defeated the West Indies in West Indies in one One-Day match, so we were quite sure that we could do it. Then our fielding was outstanding. All these factors came in handy to win the Prudential World Cup.”

The first man to score 10,000 Test runs, Gavaskar also spoke about his unfulfilled dreams.

“I had a dream of getting (Rohan) Kanhai caught behind and then trap (Garry) Sobers leg before wicket. But it never happened,” he concluded.

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