Sunil Gavaskar refuses giving credit to Gautam Gambhir for India’s aggressive batting, Calls it ‘foot-licking’

According to Sunil Gavaskar, the Test match victory against Bangladesh in Kanpur was due to the aggressive batting style of India under leadership of Rohit Sharma. While some have credited Gautam Gambhir for this, Sunil believes that Rohit Sharma was the anchor behind this change in batting by Indian team.

Gavaskar stated that some have called this batting style as “Bossball”, while others have called it as “Gamball”.

“While one paper called the Indian batting ‘Bossball’ because 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.

“While the England batting approach changed completely under the new regime of Ben Stokes and McCullum, we have seen over the last couple of years that Rohit has been batting like this and encouraging his team to do so as well,” Gavaskar’s column further read.

Gavaskar has a belief that it’s not fair to credit Gautam Gambhir for the team’s aggressive batting. He pointed out that Gambhir has not being coaching for a long time and also did not pay like that in his career. Hence, giving him the credit would be ‘foot licking of highest quality’. Gavaskar further stated that the credit should be given to Rohit Sharma.

“Gambhir has only been coaching for a couple of months, so attributing this approach to him is foot-licking of the highest quality. Gambhir himself hardly ever batted in this fashion like McCullum used to do. If any credit is due, it is solely to Rohit and nobody else,” Gavaskar wrote.

“Instead of using the words this-ball or that-ball, I would suggest using the skipper’s first name, Rohit, and term it the ‘Gohit’ approach. Hopefully, brainier people will come up with a trendier name for this rather than the lazy option of calling it after ‘Bazball’,” he concluded.

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