Legendary Indian batter Sunil Gavaskar revealed three legends from his era who he believes would have been extremely successful in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The Indian Premier League, which began in 2008, has gone on to become the richest and most popular T20 league in the world and is amongst the top five most followed sports leagues in the world.
However, despite being in its 16th edition, it has seen many legends participating in it including the likes of Adam Gilchrist, Kumar Sangakkara, Lasith Malinga, Chris Gayle, Sachin Tendulkar, and many more gracing the league.
And now legendary batter Sunil Gavaskar himself has revealed which three legends in yesteryears would have excelled in this slam-bang version of cricket.
Gavaskar was asked to choose players from his team who are fit for IPL and he went with World Cup-winning skipper Kapil Dev as his choice for the all-rounder. For the batter, he chose Sandeep Patil and his choice for the bowler was BS Chandrashekhar.
“Look, a batsman I would like to see would be Sandeep Patil, there is only one all-rounder who I would choose – Kapil Dev, for the bowler, I would like to see BS Chandrashekhar play in the T20 format because his bowling action was not suited only for test cricket, but one day cricket and T20 cricket would also be easy for him,” Gavaskar said during a Q&A session on Star Sports.
In the same session, Gavaskar was asked about which franchise he would’ve liked to play for the IPL. He quickly named Mumbai Indians and then added if not MI, he would have liked to play for Chennai Super Kings and see how the brain of CSK captain MS Dhoni worked behind the scenes.
“Mumbai Indians, who else? If not, then I would like to play for Chennai Super Kings. Chennai Super Kings for two reasons, firstly, the Chennai owners are passionate about cricket, they have done so much for the sport. Srinivasan sir has done a lot for cricket. And the second big reason would be to sit in the dressing room with MS Dhoni and see how he captains the team. Is he as calm and composed in the dressing room as he is on the field? Does he lose his cool when someone has dropped a catch or somebody didn't back up a fielder? That's what I would like to know,” the legendary batter said.
