‘There’s a shortcoming…’: Sunil Gavaskar points out the areas of improvement in Indian team

Team India is so far unbeaten in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy, winning all of their matches in the group stages before defeating Australia to reach the final. Despite this, legendary India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar believes that there are areas where India can improve ahead of the final against New Zealand.

He said that India have not produced a lot of wickets in the middle overs despite keeping the runs in check and also pointed out the lack of successful partnerships for the opening wicket. 

“They haven’t because when you look at the openers, they haven’t really given the Indian team the kind of start that they had hoped for. That has not happened. So, clearly, I think there’s a shortcoming over there. Even with the new ball, you might want to in the first 10 overs. You definitely want to take about 2 or 3 wickets. That’s also not quite been happening. In the middle overs, we have not got wickets, even though the runs have not been flowing. So those are areas that you get better in those areas, the better the chances of going on and winning the final,” Gavaskar said on India Today.

The former India batter also stated that the Men in Blue shouldn’t make any changes to the playing XI and should stick to playing 4 spinners for the final, adding that inclusion of Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav has only made the Indian attack more powerful.

“I think it is going to be 4 spinners. It has to be. Why change now? It’s shown Chakravarthy’s inclusion, Kuldeep’s inclusion has shown how effective they can be. And also, wicket-taking balls are the best dot balls in limited-overs cricket or any format of the game. So they’ve been doing that, so there should be no change at all,” Gavaskar said.

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