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IND vs AUS: No vigour on Ajinkya Rahane, he has won both times as captain: Sunil Gavaskar

Former India cricketer and mythological batsman Sunil Gavaskar recently spoke about Ajinkya Rahane’s ability to lead Team India opposite Australia after skipper Virat Kohli departs home post a Adelaide Test. Rahane will be heading India in a final 3 Test matches. But will he be means to hoop a pressure? Gavaskar positively feels so.

Speaking exclusively on Star Sports uncover GAME PLAN, Team India batting fable Sunil Gavaskar feels that there is no vigour on Ajinkya Rahane, who is approaching to lead a Test group in Virat Kohli’s absence, he said, “There is no genuine vigour on Ajinkya Rahane, since both a times that he has led a team, he has won. He led opposite Australia during Dharamshala and India won. He led opposite Afghanistan and India won. So, as distant as his captaincy is concerned, there is going to be no vigour since he knows he is during a moment, usually a substitute captain for a 3 Test matches. So, we don’t consider a fact about being a captain or carrying on as captain is going to be partial of his meditative during all. He will do a pursuit as overtly as he plays his cricket, that means, as a batsman, he will go out there and try and let Pujara try and grub a antithesis in and play few some-more shots maybe.”

Gavaskar also went on to store praises on Test maestro batsman Cheteshwar Pujara forward of a four-match Test array opposite Australia, he said, “Out of 20 days of Test cricket that we have forward of us, we are unequivocally happy to have him bat for 15 days, there is no doubt about it. Whether he has played any cricket or not, we don’t consider it’s going to make any disproportion since he is so clever mentally, that he will be…. he loves batting, he loves being during a crease, he loves wearing a bowlers down. In a final dual years, he has also softened his strokes and operation of shots.”

Former Australia opener Matthew Hayden shares his thoughts on Cheteshwar Pujara forward of a four-match Test array opposite Australia, he said, “As we know Australians adore to splash coffee, and we have motionless to go on a small debate to make certain we have copiousness of caffeine when it comes to examination Pujara bat. But, we know what a existence is, he harm us badly. We are of a era now where we are admiring people for their cadence play, we are admiring people for their strike rate. Well, he is one of a few guys in Test cricket that have a strike rate of underling 45 and he can harm you.”

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