“Ashutosh’s innings will be remembered for long time”: Sunil Gavaskar

Reflecting on Ashutosh’s match-winning knock for Delhi Capitals against Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL league match here, Gavaskar said they all saw him do that last year as well—Ashutosh played some terrific innings, and his confidence has only grown since

Visakhapatnam: Sunil Gavaskar says that Ashutosh Sharma’s innings will be remembered for a long time to come.

Reflecting on Ashutosh’s match-winning knock for Delhi Capitals against Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL league match here, Gavaskar said they all saw him do that last year as well—he played some terrific innings, and his confidence has only grown since.

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“Once you’ve done it before, you enter the next season with even greater self-belief. He’s also played another season of domestic cricket, where he has been smashing the ball around and scoring plenty of runs, so he came in full of confidence,” Gavaskar said.

“From the very first ball, he was striking it cleanly from the middle of the bat, sending it deep—these weren’t just occasional sixes clearing the boundary, they were landing in the stands, again and again. This innings will be remembered for a long, long time—not just because of the quality of stroke play, but because of the high-pressure situation,” the former India opener and now TV commentator said in a chat with Jio Hotstar.

“Honestly, LSG will review everything—the captaincy decisions made by Rishabh Pant, the execution with the ball—whether they went the right way with spin or pace,” Gavaskar said.

“But sometimes, in this game, you simply have to give credit to the opposition. That inning by Ashutosh was phenomenal. We’re going to witness many unbelievable innings throughout this IPL, but I promise you, by the end of the tournament, this will be in the top five. That was a match-winning effort, single-handedly turning the game around,” he said.