Former legendary Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar is known for his blunt analyses and comments on modern-day cricket, especially Indian cricket. Recently, he has come up with another fresh statement on the future of the captaincy of the national side of Team India. Gavaskar happened to pick the young batter Shubman Gill and star all-rounder Axar Patel as the contenders to be considered for the role of vice-captain in West Indies Tests.
He also felt that players including the likes of Shubman Gill and Axar Patel could be the future of the captaincy of the national side of India.
“One is Shubman Gill and the other is Axar Patel
Although this statement from the 1983 World Cup winner batter drew a lot of opposite reactions and responses from Indian cricket fans. Some of the fans targeted Gavaskar for ignoring the other star players like Ravindra Jadeja and a few others as well. Fans took to the micro-blogging site Twitter to come up with some sort of trolling remarks for Gavaskar.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Axar Patel ?
— SINGH (@kyadekhrahe) June 24, 2023
App agar legend ho toh kuch bhi bol dho,
Matlab kuch bhi
Pagla Gaya hai.
— Valyou Investing (@ValyouInvesting) June 24, 2023
Axar patel ?
— MSD (@KevinTejas1) June 24, 2023
Ye Gavaskar sastha ganja phuk ke aya kya ?😂
30 average in 30 matches 😭😭😭 And Gavaskar saheb want him to be the VC....
— Kunal Bishwal (@KunalBishwal18) June 24, 2023
Axar 🙄kuchh bhi ! Better consider Ashwin
— ... (@unstoppable720) June 24, 2023
What did he smoke after wtc final? 😭😭
— Smithin (@Smeedhen) June 24, 2023
I think Rahane as captain and gill as vice captain for west Indies tests
— Sonali Sahu (@Sonali_8_31) June 24, 2023
Sir axar to 11 ma bhi nahi haoga
— Abhishek Jain (@Abhishe36473503) June 24, 2023
Aur Vic captain
Time for him to retire from commentary and giving his opinion on Cricket as well.
— Cric 10 (@OfficialCric10) June 24, 2023
And people say that there is no Nasha in kamla pasand pic.twitter.com/6rovkrTkqO
— ` (@kurkureter) June 24, 2023
Make captain who's certain to play. It won't be good on axar or shubhman gill to get criticised and their captain position question based on 2-3 failed games
— Harshit Sinha (@ImHarshitSinha) June 24, 2023
Apart from his stand for Gill and Axar Patel, the former batting great also named some other Indian youngsters who could be reckoned with by management in the future.
"If there are others, somebody like Ishan Kishan, once he cements his place in the team. He can come in the reckoning as well,” stated the 73-year-old.
“There is nothing wrong in having him <Ajinkya Rahane> as the vice-captain, but a missed opportunity to groom a young player. At least, tell a young player that we are looking at you as a future captain. So, he starts to think as a future leader,” he added later.