Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar opened up on the side’s attacking approach in the second Test win over Bangladesh in Kanpur and denied it as being named a different version of ‘Bazball’. Gavaskar also said India’s aggressive approach should be named ‘Gohit’ after captain Rohit Sharma as well.

“Instead of using the words this-ball or that-ball, I would suggest using the skipper’s first name, Rohit, and term it the “Gohit” approach. Hopefully, brainier people will come up with a trendier name for this rather than the lazy option of calling it after “Bazball,” wrote Sunil Gavaskar. “While one paper called the Indian batting “Bossball” because the captain or “boss” of the team, Rohit, had shown the way, some from the old powers referred to it as “Gamball” after the Indian coach, Gautam Gambhir.”

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Sunil Gavaskar also reminded everyone that the ‘Bazball’ name became viral because England’s current head coach Brendon McCullum
used to practice a similar approach when he led New Zealand during his playing career as well.

“This Indian batting approach was labelled this-ball and that-ball after the term “Bazball” was coined for the England team’s batting attitude. It was called this because “Baz” is the nickname of their coach, Brendon McCullum from New Zealand, who batted exactly as his team is doing — throwing caution to the winds in an attempt to score runs,” again wrote Sunil Gavaskar.