Toss is always vital in India, says Sunil Gavaskar – Cricket News Update
India’s former captain and legendary batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863, believes that toss plays an important role in the outcome of Test matches in India as the pitches slow down in the latter stages of a match.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 won an important toss in the first of the four-match series against England at Ahmedabad and had no hesitation in opting to bat first. His batsmen responded nicely, posting a mammoth total of 521 runs for the loss of eight wickets before
declaring their first innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 through a blistering century and was ably backed up by Cheteshwar Pujara’s double century.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 remained under pressure throughout the match as they had a mountain to climb, eventually handing over a nine-wicket victory to the home team.
The former great expressed that winning the toss is always an added advantage in India, with the pitches helping the spinners after the first couple of days. Gavaskar is delighted with the home team’s batting performance as they threw the visitors out of
the match by scoring heavily in their first innings.
“Indian pitches are generally very-very good to bat on the first couple of days, then they sort of slow-down and have a bit of spin. So you win the toss and you bat first,” said Gavaskar. “You have the opportunity to put up a decent total on the board and
India did more than decent. Batting first becomes an important aspect on Indian pitches.”
Meanwhile, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228, the Indian off-spinner, picked up just four wickets in the match compared to Pragyan Ojha’s nine. The former captain is of the view that the lanky off-spinner looked a touch off-colour in the Ahmedabad Test and there is an
outside chance that the more experienced, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Test, which is going to commence from November 23.
He mentioned, “He certainly seems to be very keen on making a comeback to the team and given that (Ravichandran) Ashwin was not as effective as he is used to, Harbhajan may be sniffing a small opportunity.”
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