“There’s no huge concern” : Sunil Gavaskar on India’s top-order failure against Pakistan in Asia Cup 2023.

India’s top order woes against a left-arm seamer continued during their Asia Cup 2023 clash against Pakistan on Saturday, September 02 at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele. The Indian top-order was brought down to their knees as Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf hunted in packs to leave them reeling at 64/4 after 14.1 overs.

Star batters Rohit Sharma (11 off 22), Virat Kohli (4 off 7) and Shubman Gill (10 off 32) faltered against the moving ball and were all out bowled. However, despite their poor outings, former India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar defended the Indian batting stars saying it’s a part and parcel of the game.

Sunil Gavaskar said “I don’t think there’s any huge concern. You look at their records. Virat has scored more than 11000 runs, Rohit has scored more than 9000 runs, and Shubman Gill has shown shades of what he is capable of too. If even after big players like Virat and Rohit fail, we have a responsible No.5 and No.6 who can take us to 260-odd, we don’t need to worry. These things happen in cricket, there will be days where the bowlers are too good.”