The Border-Gavaskar Commentary panel member and former India opener Gautam Gambhir stated on Sunday that Rohit Sharma was the one skipper in the Indian Premier League who persistently bothered him (IPL). Gambhir was invited to call any two gamers from his KKR facet on the time to incorporate on the commentary group for the second Test match between India and Australia on Sunday.
Deep Das Gupta requested Gautam Gambhir to select one in all Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni as Incredible Captain of the IPL
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“It’s a difficult question, but the answer is very simple. If I have to pick two players, I have an easy answer. My first player would be Rohit Sharma, and the second would be Yuvraj Singh. I didn’t need any other player apart from these two. I’m not saying we would be having a perfect team, but we would’ve won more than two titles (if we had these two players),” Gambhir informed Star Sports.
“Rohit and I would open, Robin Uthappa at 3, Suryakumar Yadav at 4, Yuvraj at 5, Yusuf Pathan at 6, and Andre Russell at 7. You can imagine what a team that would have been. We tried our best to get Yuvraj, but that couldn’t happen,” he added.
Besides Rohit (Mumbai Indians) and MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings), probably the most profitable captains in the historical past of IPL having led their respective sides to 5 and 4 titles respectively, Gambhir too had a profitable run as a captain on the franchise-based mostly league.
Gambhir, who performed for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for seven years, has led the franchise to 2 titles in 2012 and 2014.
Asked in regards to the batter who gave him sleepless nights as an opposition captain, Gambhir picked India skipper Rohit stated: “The only captain who gave me sleepless nights was Rohit Sharma. I didn’t need to make plans for anyone else, nor did I think much about others.”