Ahmedabad: India registered a six wicket win over West Indies in the ODI to a 1-0 lead in the three-match ODI series at Ahmedabad. It was India’s historic 1000th ODI match and Rohit Sharma’s first assignment as a full-time ODI captain.
Talking about the same former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar on Sunday rated the performance of India’s new white-ball skipper Rohit. He also pointed out an area of concern in his leadership skills.
“I think he was very good. He made the right kind of bowling changes. Field placements were good. Maybe the one are that he should be looking at keeping the right fielder at the position. Sometimes you want to have a fielder who is very quick, who has got a good arm on the boundary and they can save the boundaries and get the ball in and make sure that the extra run is not there,” he said.
The batting maestro also rated Rohit’s performance on a scale of 1 to 10.
“With a win like this, it is always a good start and he contributed to the win in terms of scoring with what is your specialty, that is batting. You have done that and of course been able to make the bowling changes, the field placing. You get just about everything right. So I think if you ask me on a scale of 10, I will give him 9.99,” Gavaskar added.
The veteran cricketer however backed Rohit to rectify the mistake in the second match, mentioning as it was his first game as skipper and he is still getting to know his players. “Today he had someone like Prasidh Krishna who is a work in progress as far as fielding is concerned. So he should be somewhere inside and somebody who is quick…like Ishan Kishan, who doesn’t have the greatest of throwing arms.” he concluded.
