ENG vs IND: You Can Show Commitment Without Yelling After Each Fall Of Wicket Says Sunil Gavaskar

Skipper Virat Kohli may have been able to unnerve his English opponents in the second Test but it seems to have backfired at Headingley as a charged-up England, after losing composure against Indian players aggression, have got themselves back in driver's seat in the ongoing third Test.

More importantly, Kohli's style of aggression ha'n't found full support from former India opener and captain Sunil Gavaskar, who said that aggression nee'n't necessarily be in your face.

While the cricketing world, including former England captain Nasser Hussain, were going gaga over how Kohli's aggression has transformed the Indian team after the visitors won the second Test at Lord's, Gavaskar was irked with the comparison made between the teams he played in and the one Kohli was leading.

Hussain had written in his column that "Virat Kohli is the right man at the right time to lead this formidable India side". He had a"ded, "His players, in particular the bowlers, want an aggressive captain. They want Kohli stirring things up, as he did so effectively in that brilliant second Test at Lord's… This India are not a side who will be bullied, as perhaps previous generations have been."

The reference to teams of the past being bullied did not go down well with Gavaskar, who took an exception to Hussain's observation in the commentary box on the first day and said that aggression needn't be shown only by being in your face.

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