Indian legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar hits back the Indian cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri who has recently hit the past Indian cricket team to defend their ongoing Test series defeat in England.

Prior to the fifth and final Test of the five-match series between the hosts England and the visitors India, England has already secured the Test series by leading it 3-1. After the series defeat, Shastri has defended the present Indian cricket team by comparing them with the other past Indian cricket teams’ performances at overseas.

Shastri said on that occasion, “If you look at the last three years, we won nine matches overseas and three series. I can’t see any other Indian team in the last 15-20 years who have had that kind of run in such a short time.”

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Recently, Gavaskar has hit back Shastri by producing some stats of Indian cricket teams’ past successful performances in their overseas tours.

Gavaskar said according to India Today, “What I can say is teams in 1980s have won in England and West Indies. Rahul Dravid also won series in West Indies in 2005, won matches in England in 2007 and captained India when they beat South Africa for the first time. Dravid gets very little credit for his leadership and his team’s wins. There have been teams who have won overseas.”

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Not denying the fact of two recent back-to-back Test series victories in Sri Lanka (2015 and 2017), Gavaskar has also pointed out that the past Indian team had also achieved some great successes in the other overseas tours.

Gavaskar spoke on it, “I will not discount wins in Sri Lanka because they are tough to beat at home but when we talk of wins, it is in England, South Africa and Australia and India have won in England before but have never won a series in South Africa and Australia.”