Srinagar: Former India Cricketer Rohan Gavaskar has termed recent outburst of Rohit Sharma against Shubman Gill during T20 match vs Afghanistan as very rare moment as Sharma is relatively very calm person.
In first T20 vs Afghanistan Rohit Sharma got runout as Shubman Gill didnt respond to his call. Rohit was livid. He flung his arms and the stump mics even caught him hurling a word that the commentators didn’t want to repeat.
“It was a walkable run,” said former India cricketer Rohan Gavaskar on Cricbuzz.
“Let’s not forget Rohit Sharma is a kind of a person, forget captain, Who doesn’t get angry that often. He is very cool, calm and collective. Now, as a younger player when you see your captain who is normally at equilibrium, blowing a fuse like the way he did, then you are thinking ‘Man I’ve got to do something special’,” he said.
“The ball has gone behind the non-striker. Rohit has hit the ball, it’s his call. As a non-striker, you’ve got to trust your partner. 9 times out of 10, the throw won’t be at your end. The fielder at mid-off and mid-on will pick up the ball and have a shy at the bowler’s end. The striker is running at the danger end”.
“The mistake that Shubman made was that he was watching the ball and kept looking at the fielder. He had no idea where Rohit was until he was right next to him,” he added.