Already impressed with the way he has captained India so far, the legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar likened stand-in captain Rohit Sharma to the West Indian great Clive Lloyd.
While writing his column for The Times of India, the former Indian captain said that they way Rohit hides his emotions on the field is similar to what Lloyd did during his time as the captain of the West Indies.
” Rohit Sharma is doing the Clive Lloyd thing by hiding his emotions as he smiles and turns back to his fielding position. This does not put any pressure on the person who dropped the catch or misfielded and makes him want to give an extra effort,” wrote Gavaskar.
The former batting great further brought into focus the similarities between this Indian side and Lloyd’s team and the ODI sides of Australia during the 1990s.
“The best of teams just go on to the next delivery as they know, in a team game, all eleven can’t be successful and there is bound to be the odd failure. How to carry that failure and make him a part of the team’s success is the key.”
“The great West Indies teams of the past did that splendidly with the phlegmatic skipper Clive Lloyd displaying no emotion with an error on the field. The same with the ’90s Australian team who bonded so well with each other that, if one of them dropped a catch, they would have a go at the batsman instead for being lucky,” Gavaskar further wrote.