Sports News: Aaron Finch had reacted to ex-India captain Sunil Gavaskar’s suggestion that the latter team needs a certain kind of captaincy for the upcoming Border-Gavaskar series starting from November 22. India’s Test captain Rohit Sharma is likely to miss the first game of the five-Test series in Australia owing to personal reasons.
Gavaskar had said that the team must appoint a new captain for the entire series if Rohit fails to make it to the first couple of Tests. Now, Gavaskar has suggested that India should be united under one captain throughout an entire series after India was humiliatingly whitewashed 3-0 at home by New Zealand.
“We have been reading that Rohit Sharma will not play in the first Test, maybe he won’t play the second one as well. If this is so, then I would say that, currently, the Indian selection committee should say that ‘if you have to rest, rest, if there are personal reasons then look at them. But if you are missing two-thirds of the matches then you should go for this tour only as a player. We will make the vice-captain the captain of this tour’,”, Gavaskar had told Sports Tak.
“Indian cricket is the most important. I would say that if we had won the New Zealand series 3-0, it would have been a different matter. Because we have lost this series 3-0, there is a need for a captain. The captain has to unite the team. If there is no captain in the beginning, it is better to make someone else the captain,” Gavaskar had further added.
However, Finch disagreed with Gavaskar’s opinion.
“I disagree with Sunny on that totally. Rohit Sharma is the captain of the Indian cricket team. If you need to stay at home because your wife is having a baby. that’s such a beautiful moment. and you take all the time that you need in that regard,” Finch told