Great player Sunil Gavaskar said that India has ‘Viratball’ to face England’s ‘Baseball’ in the five-match Test series starting from January 25 in Hyderabad. England’s batsmen now play in a very aggressive style which is linked to the way their head coach Brendon McCullum plays.
We have Virat Ball
Gavaskar told ‘Star Sports’, ‘The way Virat Kohli is batting, his movement is good. Looking at the form he is in, we have ‘Viratball’ to counter ‘Baseball’. Kohli is just 152 runs away from joining the club of players who have scored 9000 runs in Test cricket. He will be the main link for India in this upcoming series. He has 29 half-centuries and 30 centuries in his name in 113 matches. Gavaskar said, ‘Yes, increasing the innings means more centuries than half-centuries. Kohli has the same number of centuries and half-centuries, which means that his speed of converting half-centuries into centuries is quite good.
England is adopting a very aggressive attitude: Gavaskar
Gavaskar said, ‘England has adopted a new attitude (baseball) in Test cricket in the last one or two years. This is a very aggressive attitude in which the batsman always tries to score runs quickly. No matter what the conditions are, he always likes to play aggressive cricket. It will be interesting to see whether this approach works against the Indian spinners or not.