“Everybody Talks About Rishabh Pant’s 80 However…”: Rahul Dravid’s Sharp Take On This “Terrific Participant” vs Australia

The wait is all however over for the India vs Australia sequence. Come Friday, the rivalry will as soon as once more be renewed when the Indian cricket staff will get right down to defend the Border Gavaskar Trophy. India have been dominating Australia in bilateral sequence since 2016-17. Since then, India have defeated Australia in 2018-19, 2020-21 and 2022-23. This time, nevertheless, issues are completely different. India are reeling from a 3-0 cleansweep by New Zealand in their very own den. India’s designated captain Rohit Sharma is all however assured to not play the primary Take a look at whereas there are harm considerations about some gamers. 

There’s additionally one other main distinction. This time India are with out Cheteshwar Pujara who was rock strong with the bat within the earlier sequence in opposition to Australia. 

Former India captain and coach Rahul Dravid was particularly requested in regards to the No. 3 slot within the present staff, one thing that he and Pujara nade their very own after they performed. Dravid backed Shubman Gill to excel within the place.    

“Effectively, they have Shubman Gill, who’s a terrific participant. He is had some nice success in Australia the final time. Everybody talks about Rishabh’s 80 [89] and rightly so, however I feel Shubman acquired 91 to set the sport up on that fifth morning. So no, he is a positive, positive participant, he is an awesome child, and he is studying. Bats in another way, barely, to me and Pujara, however nonetheless a really, superb participant,” Rahul Dravid advised ESPN Cricinfo.

“Runs on the highest might be vital. Now whether or not it comes from one, two or three or 4, it would not actually matter. You are going to want one in every of that high 4 or two of the highest 4 to have an awesome sequence. That basically helps in Australia. With the Kookaburra ball and people situations, if you will get by way of that preliminary interval and have your high 4 soak in a number of that interval, it actually permits your decrease order to have the ability to management and dominate these video games.”