Sunil Gavaskar unhappy with Ravi Shastri's comments; recalls India's best overseas wins

Team India’s head coach Ravi Shastri is never shy of backing his team in bad times. He came out bravely ahead of the third Test with a possibility of losing the series and showed immense confidence in his troops. The result was a thumping victory and he did the same ahead of the dead rubber and expressed that his team is better than all the previous teams. Though his comment was more in favour of backing Team India, the former cricketers including Sunil Gavaskar haven’t taken it in good taste.

The visitors have definitely run teams close in their last two overseas tours. But they haven’t learnt the art of closing out games which have hurt India. Despite competing in also each of the last seven overseas matches this year, Virat Kohli and his men have only managed to win a couple of them. Even though they triumph in London to conclude the tour, it will be least bothered as the series is already gone.

But Shastri’s comments of this team being better than all the previous touring sides have left Gavaskar fuming. While speaking to India Today, he reminded one of his old teammates that India has won in the countries like West Indies, South Africa and England previously. “All I can say is that no Indian team has won in Sri Lanka for a long time. But we have won in the West Indies, in England, Test matches in Australia and South Africa,” he said.

India won in England under Dravid

Sunil Gavaskar also reminded Ravi Shastri that India last won the Test series against England in 2007 and it was under the leadership of Rahul Dravid who has seldom got the credit for what he has done for his country during his playing days. “What I can say is that teams in the 1980s have won in England and West Indies. Rahul Dravid also won series in West Indies in 2005, in England in 2007 and captained when India beat South Africa for the first time (in South Africa),” Gavaskar added.

The fifth Test between India and England will commence on Friday and it remains to be seen if the visitors will compete in the same way they did in the series earlier.

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