Sunil Gavaskar: Wanted To Be An Opener Like Rohit Sharma

Sunil Gavaskar: wanted to be an opener like Rohit Sharma. The great batsman of the Indian team said- I wanted to be an opener like Rohit Sharma. Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar is completely impressed with the power-hitting skills of current Indian opener Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma started his career batting in the middle order, but once he was promoted to open, he achieved more heights. The right-handed batsman Rohit has averaged 58.11 as an opener in ODI cricket.

With an innings of 264 runs, he has scored more than 7 thousand runs as an opener. Apart from this, 27 of his 29 ODI centuries have come as openers. Last year, he was promoted to open in Test cricket too and he performed well. In five matches as an opener, Rohit Sharma scored 556 runs against South Africa in Ranchi at an average of 92.66 with the highest score of 212. This includes 3 centuries.

Sunil Gavaskar, who made the world record for the first time in Test cricket to score 10,000 runs, has said that he wants to be an opener batsman like 33-year-old Rohit Sharma. Gavaskar said in an interview with a leading media house, “The way you see Rohit batting in one-day cricket, Test cricket has been rocking since the first over. That’s what I wanted to play. The conditions and of course The lack of confidence in my ability did not allow me to do so. ”

He continued, “When I see the next generation doing this, I’m completely over the moon, I love to see the next generation because there you see progress. You see that they are for the next generation How to set the bar. ” Rohit Sharma has recently been selected for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India’s highest sporting honor. He will become the fourth Indian cricketer to receive this honor.