The legendary Sunil Gavaskar feels Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane repaid the belief that was proven in them, including it’s simple to get excited by younger skills however the staff ought to proceed displaying religion in its senior gamers so long as they’re “not getting out badly.”
After a string of poor performances, the under-fire duo of Pujara and Rahane got here good with the bat, scoring half-centuries in India’s second innings of the second Test.
“The team has backed them because of the experience and what they have done in the past. They had the belief that they will come good and they did,” Gavaskar mentioned on Star Sports.
“Sometimes we generally is a little bit onerous on a few of our senior gamers as a result of you’ve got these thrilling younger gamers ready within the wings and all of us need to see them get a little bit of publicity.
“But as long as these senior players are playing well and not getting out badly, then I think we should show faith in them,” he added.
India was with out the providers of normal skipper Virat Kohli who was dominated out of the Test minutes earlier than the toss because of a decrease again spasm.
“It is superb, that is the primary time that India have misplaced a Test match through which Virat Kohli has not performed. They drew as soon as in Sydney however in any other case they’ve at all times received.
Despite Rahane and Pujara’s knocks India was not capable of comprise the South African batters, specifically skipper Dean Elgar, who stitched essential partnerships to steer the hosts to series-levelling 1-1 win right here on Thursday.
Gavaskar was not impressed by stand-in skipper KL Rahul’s subject placements. He was additionally vital of the Indian fielding.
“I believed giving Dean Elgar these singles at the beginning of the innings was making life slightly bit simpler for him.
“Elgar isn’t a hooker of the ball so to have two males within the deep didn’t make any sense. He was taking the singles fairly comfortably.
“The Indian fielding could have been just that little bit sharper. But otherwise, it was the South Africans who won the game. I don’t think the Indians lost it, the South Africans who won this game,” mentioned Gavaskar.
