‘Condition is set efficiency, no longer frame weight’: Sunil Gavaskar defends Prithvi Shaw, bringing up Sarfaraz Khan’s instance | Cricket Information

NEW DELHI: Manage line batter Prithvi Shaw, who used to be excluded from the Mumbai squad for the continuing Ranji Trophy fit in opposition to Tripura owing to health and disciplinary problems, discovered some phrases of solace from none alternative than the mythical Sunil Gavaskar.
The suitable-handed opening batter, who has represented Republic of India in 5 Checks, six ODIs, and one T20I, seems to have encountered some difficulties. Assets point out that the 24-year-old has been abnormal in attending the crew’s coaching periods and has additionally been seen as being “a little overweight.”
“Speaking of domestic matches, defending Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai have dropped Prithvi Shaw from their team that is currently in Tripura. There have been mixed reports about his omission from the Ranji team. If it’s about his attitude, approach and discipline, then it’s understandable, but hopefully, it has nothing to do with his weight, as one report seems to have suggested. That report suggested that he had 35 per cent more body fat,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Mid-Month.

Gavaskar additionally emphasised that bodily look, akin to weight or frame state, must no longer be the principle measure of a participant’s health in cricket. He cites examples of Sarfaraz Khan, who, regardless of society scrutiny over his body, scored a magnificent 150 in opposition to Untouched Zealand.
“We have seen in the previous Test in Bengaluru how another player Sarfaraz Khan, whose weight and shape have also been discussed in the public domain, played a scintillating innings of 150, showing that it is not the shape or the size of your waist that determines cricket fitness.
It’s whether you can score 150-plus runs and that too bat for a whole day or bowl 20-plus overs in a day. That should be the only criteria of a player’s fitness. By the way, how many players with zero per cent or minimal body fat have scored 379 like Prithvi Shaw? I rest my case about fitness,” added Gavaskar.