IPL 2024: Sunil Gavaskar optimistic about CSK securing playoffs berth
During a discussion on Star Sports, the 74-year-old also provided insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the CSK team for the forthcoming IPL edition.
During a discussion on Star Sports, the 74-year-old also provided insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the CSK team for the forthcoming IPL edition.
The southpaw is expected to return to action in the 2024 edition of the Indian Premier League for Delhi Capitals, subject to his full recovery.
"There is a slight difference when you play Test cricket when compared to T20I and ODI cricket. The difference is in the ball,” Gavaskar said.
Sunil Gavaskar has recently asked why we Indians, though electrified by Glenn Maxwell’s fastest World Cup century ~ off 40 balls in Delhi the other day against the Netherlands ~ should refrain from any comparison with Kapil Dev’s magic 175 not out in 1983 at Tunbridge Wells against Zimbabwe, which too had turned things sensationally around.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the International Cricket Stadium in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Saturday afternoon.
"I got an email from Sunil Gavaskar - would I consider coaching the Indian team," Kirsten recalled.
"The England and West Indies series will help us evaluate if we can play cricket or not," said the former Indian skipper.
The legendary Indian batsman famously scored three centuries as well as a double hundred in his first-ever series for the Indian team.
Srikkanth was in a way much ahead of his time because batsmen were known to play cautiously back then and he was of opposite approach.
Fast bowler Ishant Sharma had earlier recalled how he had to borrow Zaheer Khan's shoes during his debut ODI series in Ireland.