Sunil Gavaskar Desires R Ashwin To Lead Team In His 100th Test at Dharamsala

Sunil Gavaskar Wants 37-Year-Old Off-Spinner To Lead India In Final Test: Former India batter & current cricket commentary legend Sunil Gavaskar wishes Indian skipper Rohit Sharma to allow the leading power to Ravichandran Ashwin on the field in the 5th Test of IND Vs Eng in Dharmasala. He wanted to be done in honoring the great off-spinner’s 100th match milestone.

Indian Off-spinner Ashwin declared his 35th five-wicket haul to bundle out England for 145 and helped give a nominal 192-run target on Day 3 of the fourth Test match between India and England.

When R Ashwin is on the way to reach another milestone and become the 14th Indian to play 100 Test Matches. Renowned Indian batter Sunil Gavaskar has a special appeal for Indian captain Rohit Sharma on this huge occasion.

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Here’s The Detailed Statement About Sunil Gavaskar Wants 37-Year-Old Off-Spinner To Lead India In Final Test

During the communication with Ravichandran Ashwin afterward the stumps on the 3rd-day test match, Sunil Gavaskar expressed that he desires the captain Rohit would permit Ashwin to head team Indian onto the field in his 100th test milestone. Indian batter feels this can be a great honor to what Ashwin has contributed to Indian cricket.

Sunil Gavaskar stated that, “India wins tomorrow and you go to Dharamsala. I just hope that Rohit allows you to lead the team out to the field when. That will be a wonderful gesture, a wonderful honor for all that you’ve done for Indian cricket”.

This is not the first record that Ashwin has set in the ongoing series against England. In the third Test match, he became only the second Indian player to pick up 500 wickets in the longest format of the game, after Kapil Dev.

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Ashwin’s Reply “No Expectations” To Gavaskar’s Request

Ravichandran Ashwin stated that Gavaskar was being too great and he had no expectations of all these things.

“Sunny bhai, you’re being too generous. Thank you so much. I have no expectations out of all these things. I think I’m well past all that but genuinely saying I’m enjoying every single moment that I am being with this team and the longer it lasts, I will be very happy,” replied Ashwin.