Sunil Gavaskar wants India to carry on with the winning momentum – Cricket News
Excited about the upcoming fixture between India and Pakistan in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863, believes that the Men in Blue would love to carry on with the winning momentum.
Having defeated http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 and company have already qualified for the semi-finals. The winner of tomorrow’s match between South
Africa and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 will be the other team to make it to the last four of the event from group B.
On the other side of the coin, Pakistan have lost both their matches so far and have been knocked out of the tournament. The Green Shirts will take on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 on Saturday in their last match at Birmingham.
The former Indian skipper, while talking to NDTV, expressed that no match between the arch-rivals, India and Pakistan, is a friendly encounter irrespective of its impact on the event. The former skipper believes that beating http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755
would be imperative for the Men in Blue to maintain their high level of confidence.
"No such thing as dead rubber when India and Pakistan are playing. Results are important for followers of both the countries," Gavaskar said. "India would certainly want to win as they would to continue with the winning rhythm.
If you lose, you start to doubt yourself and India would want to avoid it."
Gavaskar is also happy with the form of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309, who has scored back to back half-centuries in the tournament but wants the right-hander to convert his starts into big knocks, which will help him strengthen his case for Test
cricket as well.
"This could well the turning point for his [Rohit's] career. The way he is playing he is certainly knocking at the doors of the Test side. But he will have to start converting scores of 50s and 60s into 100s for that," the former
Indian captain added.
Sharma is originally a middle-order batsman; however, the team management has decided to use him as an opener in this tournament, taking into account India’s existing strength in the middle-order.
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