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Australia vs India BGT 2024-25: Sunil Gavaskar Lambasts Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli after big defeat in the 4th test


India are down 1-2 in the series following a 184-run win in the fourth test.

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Australia vs India BGT 2024-25

India's legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar didn't hold back and vent his frustrations towards India's star players Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. The former Indian captain blamed India's top-order batsmen for the Team India's downfall in the fourth test match of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar series.

While chasing 340 runs on the final day of the Boxing Day test, Indian team made the worst-possible start to their 2nd innings, as top-three batsmen, Rohit Sharma (9), KL Rahul (0) and Virat Kohli (5) buckled under pressure. Had Indian batsmen showed more grit, the draw was not out of reach. That would have given the Indian team a chance to win the series going into the final test match.


Australia vs India BGT 2024-25: Sunil Gavaskar Lashes Out At Senior Players

After India's miserable performance in the fourth test, Sunil Gavaskar didn't hold back at all. He highlighted that being a top-order batsmen, more was expected from the likes of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

"It all depends on the selectors. The contributions that were expected have not come. It is the top-order which has to contribute, if the top-order is not contributing, why blame the lower-order," Sunil Gavaskar said after India's defeat.

The seniors have not really made the contribution that they should have, all that they had to do was bat out today and live to fight another day in Sydney," Gavaskar told India Today. 

...it's just that the top-order didn't contribute and that is the reason India found itself in this position."


Gavaskar Criticizes Rishabh Pant

In a disappointing test compounded by a batting failure, one of the positives for the Team India was the batting performances of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Nitish Kumar Reddy. The former scored 82 runs in the first innings, followed by a gritty 84-run innings in the 2nd innings, Nitish, on the other hand, hit his maiden century in the first innings, scoring 114 runs.

But Gavaskar wasn't impressed by Rishabh Pant's shot-selection. The wicket-keeper batsman is known for playing high-risk shots. Sometimes it pays and on other instances, it goes horribly wrong. That's what happened in the fourth test as Pant played uncanny and rash shots which ended his innings in both the innings.

"Yes, absolutely around tea time when Rishabh Pant and Yashasvi Jaiswal had batted through the post-lunch session, it certainly looked India could achieve a draw because it was a matter of batting for another hour really without losing a wicket, and Australia would have then given up," Gavaskar said.

"The whole idea was try and take into the mandatory overs and if around the mandatory overs India had just lost maybe four wickets then Australia, after a couple off overs, would have asked to shake hands but that didn't happen."


India will look to draw level series when the 5th and the final test match of the Border-Gavaskar series starts on January 3, 2025. This match will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

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