“Only Richards is such …”, Sunil Gavaskar told this legend of India, second Vivian Richards of world cricket

Sunil gavaskar on rohit sharma and viv richards: India’s great captain Sunil Gavaskar (Sunil Gavaskar, Has talked about the Indian legendary batsman whom he considers Vivian Richards of the current cricket. Mead day In his article written in the great Gavaskar Vivian Richards (Viv Richards vs Rohit Sharma, Has compared India’s legend Rohit Sharma. Gavaskar has compared the pull shot to be installed by Rohit with the great West Indies batsman Vivian Richards. Recently, Rohit has announced his retirement from Test cricket. In such a situation, Gavaskar has written his opinion about Rohit in his column.

The former Indian captain praised Rohit and described him as the second Vivian Richards of world cricket. Gavaskar wrote, “In the cricket that I have got the privilege of watching, only Viv Richards has been able to play pull shot like Sharma. Viv used to play the bounce of the ball from the square leg towards the wide mid-on, while Sharma comes under the bounce and hit the midwick to the deep fine.”

The former Indian captain further wrote, for a fast bowler it is disastrous and discouraged that his fastest ball disappeared from the ground. Both Richards and Sharma also had other shots, but it was their capable who stopped the breath of any bowler. “

Sunil Gavaskar further wrote, “Rohit had so much time to play fast balls that I remember during the famous 2021 Gaba Test I said that after throwing the ball, he can take off his helmet, comb his hair, then we can wear helmets back and then he can also find time to kill the ball in the audience gallery. Sharma was facing him as if he was playing spinners. “