‘Instead of using the words this-ball or that-ball’ - Sunil Gavaskar suggests new name for India’s batting approach in Tests

Former India batter Sunil Gavaskar recently came forward and expressed his opinion about India’s batting approach in Test cricket being branded as a different version of ‘Bazball’. The former batter suggested that India’s attacking approach with the bat should be given a new name. 

It is worth noting that team India put in an excellent performance against Bangladesh in the recently concluded two-game Test series. In the second Test in Kanpur, which was interrupted by rain, India opted for an attacking approach with the bat on day 4 and quickly scored runs to get a result out of the game. 

Seeing the side’s performance, Sunil Gavaskar opined that the name for such an approach should be called as ‘Gohit’ approach. 

"Instead of using the words this-ball or that-ball, I would suggest using the skipper’s first name, Rohit, and term it the “Gohit” approach. Hopefully, brainier people will come up with a trendier name for this rather than the lazy option of calling it after “Bazball," Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar.

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"While one paper called the Indian batting “Bossball” because the captain or “boss” of the team, Rohit, had shown the way, some from the old powers referred to it as “Gamball” after the Indian coach, Gautam Gambhir, he added. 

It was called this because “Baz” is the nickname of their coach: Gavaskar

Furthermore, Gavaskar explained the logic behind England’s style of play in Test cricket being named ‘Bazball’, he revealed that Baz is the nickname of the side’s head coach, Brendon McCullum, who had an attacking style of play in Test cricket during his playing days as well. 

"This Indian batting approach was labelled this-ball and that-ball after the term “Bazball” was coined for the England team’s batting attitude. It was called this because “Baz” is the nickname of their coach, Brendon McCullum from New Zealand, who batted exactly as his team is doing — throwing caution to the winds in an attempt to score runs," wrote Gavaskar.