No Top-Class Indian Cricketer Has Been Treated As Bafflingly As Ashwin Has Been: Gavaskar

Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has come hard on the Indian team players and the management following Team India’s second straight defeat in an ICC World Test Championship (WTC) final. Gavaskar questioned the shot-selection of the Indian batters on Day 5 when the team lost all their remaining 7 wickets inside the first session even as Indian fans hoped for a fight and an oustide chance of a win. And now Gavaskar has gone on to share his views on the exclusion of Ravichandran Ashwin from India’s Playing XI in the WTC final.

While Sachin Tendulkar had also said that he failed to understand why the world’s top-ranked Test bowler Ashwin was not included in the side, Gavaskar has gone a step further said to say that not a single top-class performer in the history of Indian cricket has received the kind of baffling treatment that the veteran India off-spinner has. He made this statement in his latest column for Mid-Day.

“No other top-class Indian cricketer in the modern era has been treated as bafflingly as Ashwin has been. Tell me if there was a No. 1 ICC-ranked batter in the team, would he have been left out of the playing XI just because in earlier times he had not got runs on a grassy pitch or if he had not scored runs on a dry spin-friendly pitch? Definitely not,” he wrote.