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London: David Gower was one of the best strikers in England for playing the game. At the age of 68, he is currently focusing on the passage of cricket and auctioning his online crickets. He was in Old Trafford by watching another test close between England and India. A few moments after Rishabh pants surrounded the ground with a broken foot on the second day of the fourth test, he sat with You To discuss. “When Pant was injured yesterday, part of me said, well, it’s good for England. But the other part of me said, it will become dull now,” Gower said. Cat extracts …Why are you talking about your cricket stuff?My family as a whole tries to clean the bridges. There are things, for example, my first blazer of a tour in England, the original MCC colors, very special. But it has been in a box in the attic for 30 to 40 years. I have nowhere where to say it. This brings back memories. If someone has a place to put this, then I am happier, it is exposed somewhere, because my memory did not decrease. Everything did not take place at auction. There are medals and trophies that I kept for my daughters.

You were one of the most elegant strikers of your time. What do you do with the modern batch bat?You have the contrast. You have someone like Rishabh Pant which is a unique animal, and the animal is not a derogatory term. At the same time, you have Shubman Gill, who has done hundreds of races in a very old -fashioned – controlled, elegant way, using timing and not brute force. It was really important for India that a new captain makes a brand. The absence of two of the big ones suddenly does not seem to have any importance. If there are enough people with the right type of talent to make it exciting, then choose them. If you are still playing tests in order to win them, you must always look for the best possible players. If their styles are different, like Shubman and Rishabh, the two things can live together in a kind of harmony. N ° 1 to 7 to 7 of England intends to advance the game quickly and to be very positive. With a little additional importance, they can make it shiny more often.Show up Mike GattingThe use of reverse sweeping in the final of the 1987 World Cup differently now?Inverted scanning has become much more common. It is played as easily as an Orthodox sweep or a cover reader or any other Orthodox shot. With Mike, I commented in London and I remember saying that it was the worst cliché I have ever seen. It was not necessary. The match was almost won. It was the last throw from Allan Border of the Dice and Mike could have done anything. If you are Mike Gatting or Joe Root, if you try to pick it up on Third Man in a test match and let yourself be taken to the shift or you have a reverse sweep, it never looks good.

Has the responsibility to save the test format fell on England, India and Australia?It is a major fault in the way global cricket is administered. He tells you who has money, who has power. I love the way New Zealand plays their cricket and I like the way they made their crickets pass to smaller terrains, pretty grounds, and I made it seem well. South Africa could not give a flying figure on the test cricket because the only thing that makes money is the SA20. I use the tiger as an example. The tiger was threatened with extinction.It is the most beautiful animal that you will meet anywhere. And when people realized that he was heading for the exit door, Project Tiger gave him a life buoy. I see the test cricket in the same way. I love it when Virat Kohli says that test cricket is the most important thing in his life, in his career, because it represents 1.4 billion votes for tests if everyone in India follows their work.You played with Ian Botham And widely covered Andrew Flintoff. The two Allrounders had trouble as captains. What makes Ben Stokes different?There is a difference between manipulating them and manipulating a team, that’s for sure. Ian was the brightest, instinctively good cricket player. And the problem at the end for him was that he did not have the instinct of managing people. Rather, he expected what they do what he did and got along. Flintoff was brilliant for a shorter period. He did extraordinary things. But trying captain in Australia turned out to be too far. He would admit that he was a disaster out of the field. He did not know particularly of course.Now Stokes impressed me a lot. He too had out -of -scope problems. The difference is that Ben, if you met him 10 years ago, you would never have predicted that he could be the captain that he is now. It was as talented as the other two, as instinctive, as self -centered as you could expect that a young man was at this stage. What these life problems have taught him is a lot about himself. The clearest demonstration is this empathy he has with all the guys who enter this team. Ian did not understand that people are different.