Adelaide: Sunil Gavaskar lashed out at Indian seamer Munaf Patel for his lackadaisical attitude on the field and suggested he should not have been included in the side that lost on Sunday.
Furious with the pacer’s sluggish fielding, the former captain said he had no problems with Munaf as a bowler but felt the pacer could neither really bat, nor did he give his best in the field.
In such a situation, leg-spinner Piyush Chawla or all-rounder Praveen Kumar would have been a better choice as the fourth bowler, Gavaskar said.
Useless fielder"If he is among the three regular bowlers, it’s okay but Munaf does not deserve a place as the fourth bowler. Because he cannot bat, he is useless as a fielder and in one-day cricket you need to do well in at least two aspects," Gavaskar said.
“I do not have anything against him. He is a good bowler. But his attitude on the field is just not right,” Gavaskar said.
Munaf could be blamed for squandering at least one run out chance as well. While bowling, Munaf was nowhere in the scene to receive the point fielder’s throw with James Hopes well short of his ground.
However, later captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni defended his decision to field Munaf, saying he needed a bowler “who does not think too much and bowls according to the field.”
“Munaf is a bowler who bowls according to the field which was important. He does not think too much. But with Sreesanth it is difficult when you need the bowler to bowl as per the field,” Dhoni said
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