In white-ball cricket, my favorite batting partner is MS Dhoni: Gautam Gambhir. Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni stitched a 109-run partnership to help India win the final of the ODI World Cup 2011.
Gautam Gambhir, a former cricketer, has picked MS Dhoni as his favorite batting partner in white-ball cricket. Notably, the pair forged a key combination for India in the 2011 World Cup final, which India won by six wickets. Aside from that, they have a lengthy history of playing together in several contests, as Gambhir recalls.
Meanwhile, Gambhir has spent the most of his international career opening with Virender Sehwag, while Dhoni has batted in the middle order. Regardless, whenever these two batted together, the communication was evident since they were both spectacular when racing between the wickets.
“My favourite batting partner was MS Dhoni. People think that it was Virender Sehwag but I actually love playing more with Dhoni, especially in white-ball cricket. We shared big partnerships. ” Gambhir quoted as saying by Times Now.
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India were not brave enough and that’s where we lost the finals: Gambhir
Meanwhile, Gambhir has criticized the Indian team’s strategy in the finals of the 2023 ODI World Cup. The southpaw stated that the Men in Blue should have played an aggressive style of cricket. But ended up being too conservative in the middle phase and reaching 240 runs, which was insufficient as Australia easily chased it down.
The 42-year-old mentioned that the team wasn’t brave enough to play an aggressive brand of cricket and hence India lost the final to Australia by six wickets. He even added that it was okay for him to see India get all-out on 150 runs but playing with an attacking intent. Rather than scoring 240 runs, which was never enough in modern-day cricket.
“I would have preferred if India had been more aggressive with their top 6-7 batters. Even if they were bundled out for 150 runs.” I’d have been alright. However, if you believe you can defend or battle for 240 runs. You don’t fight in the World Cup final. “I would have preferred a 150-all-out approach or a 300-all-out approach,” Gambhir added.
“Rohit should have probably sent that message ahead of time that even if he gets out early, others should continue to play aggressively.” Virat has a job to play, which is to anchor from one end while the rest of the team goes hard,” Gambhir observed.
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