Sunil Gavaskar lauded the BCCI’s offer of rescheduling the cancelled Old Trafford Test, saying India should never forget England’s gesture ...
Sunil Gavaskar lauded the BCCI’s offer of rescheduling the cancelled Old Trafford Test, saying India should never forget England’s gesture of returning back to complete a tour, which was halted midway due to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008.
The fifth Test between India and England in Manchester was called-off hours before its start on Friday after a Covid-19 outbreak in the visiting team’s camp which made the Indian players reluctant to play fearing a positive result might lead to 10-day isolation and scheduling nightmare of Indian Premier League.
England vs India: Fifth Test cancelled due to Covid-19 concerns, BCCI offers to reschedule
Both the BCCI and England Cricket Board officials later announced that the match will be rescheduled at a later date as a one-off game, but the decision is yet to be made official.
“Yes, I think that (rescheduling the cancelled Test) would be the correct thing to do. Look, we, in India, should never forget what the England team did in 2008 after the horrific attack, the 26/11. They came back,” Gavaskar told official broadcaster of the series Sony Sports. “They would have been perfectly entitled to say ‘we don’t feel safe, we are not coming back’.”
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