Rohit, Virat Rahane played for personal milestones claims Sunil Gavaskar

Rohit, Virat Rahane played for personal milestones claims Sunil Gavaskar

After India lost to Australia by 209 runs on a final day, Sunil Gavaskar was in no mood to spare the Indian batters after another collapse in the World Test Championship final. India were looking comfortable on Day 4, with Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane batting brilliantly.

However, the last day started on a sorry note for the sub-continent team. Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane were dismissed on balls that were pitched outside the off-stump.

Earlier, captain Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara never bothered to value their wickets in the second innings.

Gavaskar further claimed that Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane were playing for personal milestones adding that he has noticed that Indian players tend to play poor shots when they are about to reach landmarks. Scoring a fifty is important but you can’t throw away wickets for the sake of records.

Chasing a massive 444 to win, Rohit Sharma’s team committed mistakes one after another on the last day of the mega final.

At the end it has been10 years and counting – Flop show by Rohit, Virat and other star batters steers India to another failure in ICC tournament

News input KV Raman