Cricket was once a technical recreation prior to the arriving of T20 Cricket, now it’s bodily too: Gambhir

Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir on Thursday hailed the present crew’s bodily health and stated {that a} participant can not do neatly in any layout if he isn’t are compatible.

“In case you take a look at the present crew’s gamers, they’re bodily very are compatible as in comparison to previous instances. This is because previous, bodily health was once no longer for the reason that a lot significance. Since T20 layout has come, cricket has grow to be a bodily recreation,” Gambhir stated at an match right here.

“After I began enjoying cricket, there was once no T20 cricket. It was once no longer a bodily recreation however was once a technical one. But when now you don’t seem to be bodily are compatible, I don’t assume you’ll be able to do neatly in any layout,” he added.

Gambhir additionally advised women within the nation to take the game severely whilst bringing up the instance of the present girls’s crew, who have been runner-up within the 2017 50-over Global Cup and semi-finalist within the 2018 T20 Global Cup.

“If women absorb any recreation, this is a large step against our imaginative and prescient of constructing a carrying nation. I would need women to take cricket as severely as males take it. In case you take a look at the present girls’s crew, they’ve performed Global Cup semi-finals and prior to that, they’ve been runner up of the Global Cup. This can be a superb signal for the rustic,” he stated.