Former Indian cricketer and legend Sunil Gavaskar criticized India captain Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid for dropping top-class Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin from the WTC final against Australia.
Sunil Gavaskar said:
“If Ashwin had been in the team, who knows what could have happened? With the bat too, he could have contributed. No other top-class Indian cricketer in the modern era has been treated as bafflingly as Ashwin has been. Tell me if there was a No. 1 ICC-ranked batter in the team, would he have been left out of the playing XI just because in earlier times he had not got runs on a grassy pitch or if he had not scored runs on a dry spin-friendly pitch? Definitely not.”
“In Ashwin’s case, despite being the No.1 bowler, he is not always the first spinner to be brought on. Oh yes, there are reasons given that there were right-handers at the crease, so a left-handed spinner was given the ball or the wind was blowing in a certain direction or the bowler’s follow-through footmarks were for the left-handed spinner, etc as if Ashwin has only left-handed batters as his wickets,” Gavaskar added.
India’s next tournament is against the West Indies it will start from July 12 to 13 August. India will play 2 Tests, 3 ODI and 5 T20s in West Indies.