Gautam Gambhir not desperate to score ton – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447, claims that he is not thinking of scoring a century during the Australian tour, but contributing to the team’s victory with bat will be his major aim when the two ace Test playing nations meet in the 4-match series later
this month.
Gambhir is of the view that when a batter starts focusing on a century, he loses his confidence and comes under pressure. He reiterated his desire to give his team a strong opening stand rather than vying for a triple figure score.
The top-order batsman got his last international hundred in 2010. However, he has played some good match-winning knocks since then. He remained instrumental in the last two home series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 and West Indies.
Talking to the media today, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 boy said, “It is not that I'm not scoring runs. If I was getting out cheaply or getting very low scores, I would be thinking about it. Sometimes when you think too much about scoring a hundred, what happens is, you start
getting desperate for it.”
His teammate and God of Cricket, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 Tendulkar’s constant inability to lash his 100th international ton can be a reason for Gambhir’s aversion.
As Team India have left for Australia for the high-stakes series, Gambhir predicts that the event will be challenging as well as thrilling.
He told, “It is going to be a very challenging tour but exciting at the same time. As a cricketer you always want to do well in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746, as that gives you a lot of satisfaction. I played in the CB Series in 2008 and I did pretty well there, and this time
I am looking forwarding to opening in Test cricket.”
Gambhir, who has 44 Test, 124 ODI and 23 T20I games to his name, will probably open his team’s innings along with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739 on Boxing Day Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground. He has hailed Veru’s outstanding double ton which came in an ODI game against
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 last week, claiming that the veteran batter will replicate the same on the Oz soil and steer the Men in Blue to win their first ever Test series over there.
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