Srinagar: Holding nothing back, former India opener Sunil Gavaskar has once agan lashed out at Rahul Dravid and Rohit Sharma led Team India for the WTC Final defeat against Australia.
India suffered yet another heartbreaking loss in the World Test Championship final, this time against Australia, which prolonged their wait for another ICC trophy.
“I have been in the teams where we have been knocked out at 42 and we had been miserable in the change rooms. We were also criticised heavily. So, I think you cannot say that the current lot is not beyond criticism. They have to be very analytical about what happened, how they get out, why didn’t they bowl well, why didn’t they catch, was the selection of the Playing XI was the right thing, so all these factors have to come in,” said Gavaskar on Star Sports.
“You cannot brush this under the carpet like ‘yeah we have got two matches against West Indies’. West Indies are not the best team in the world. You just go and hammer them 2-0, 3-0, whatever the matches are. This doesn’t mean anything because when you come across and if you go to the finals and if you are playing Australia again, making the same mistakes, then how would you win the trophy?” he added.
India is set to play Test series against West Indies, The series will also have a three-match ODI series which will mark the start to the final phase of India’s preparation for the 2023 ODI World Cup slated to begin from October onwards at home. India will also play a five-match T20I series