Sunil Gavaskar lambasts Rohit Sharma's captaincy, says expected more from him

It's been a month since India lost the World Test Championship final but Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar is still not over India's poor show at another ICC event.

During the Indian Express 'Idea Exchange' event, Gavaskar tore into Team India's captainship, highlighting how his sky-high expectations from Rohit Sharma have gone down the drain with India repeatedly underperforming at big tournaments under Rohit's leadership.

Slamming the captain and coaching staff, Gavaskar said, 'I expected more from him. In India it is different but when you do well overseas that is the real test. there is where he has been a little disappointing, even in the T20 formats with all the experience of the IPL, hundreds of matches as a captain, with a mix of best IPL players not being able to get to the finals has been disappointing'

He questioned the redressal system as well and said that Rahul Dravid and Rohit Sharma should have been asked about the decisions they took during the WTC final. He said the coaches should take more accountability for the team's performance.

The former captain feels that the senior players take their places in the team for granted. Calling them out on their attitude, the 74-year-old said, 'The truth is the main guys do not really want to go early, because they know, come what may they'll get selected. and when you go early they will talk about workload, you call yourself the fittest team in the world or fitter than the early generations then how do you break down so soon? How do you have a workload issue when you play a 20-over game?'