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Rohit similar to Lloyd says Sunil Gavaskar

Rohit Sharma

Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar believes that stand-in Indian skipper Rohit Sharma and legendary West Indian captain Clive Lloyd are similar in a particular aspect.

“India’s skipper Rohit Sharma is doing the Clive Lloyd thing by hiding his emotions as he smiles and turns back to his fielding position. This does not put any pressure on the person who dropped the catch or misfielded and makes him want to give an extra effort,” he wrote in his column for TOI.

“The best of teams just go on to the next delivery as they know, in a team game, all eleven can’t be successful and there is bound to be the odd failure. How to carry that failure and make him a part of the team’s success is the key. The great West Indies teams of the past did that splendidly with the phlegmatic skipper Clive Lloyd displaying no emotion with an error on the field. The same with the ’90s Australian team who bonded so well with each other that, if one of them dropped a catch, they would have a go at the batsman instead for being lucky”.