Srikkanth made his debut for India in the year 1981 and in him and Gavaskar, India found a bankable opening pair. He was the North pole and I was the South pole.”Talking about the camaraderie, Gavaskar once said that Srikkanth “liberated” him as a batsman. In fact, former India allrounder and captain Kapil Dev recently said that Gavaskar and Srikkanth would have been sought-after T20 batsmen if they had played in the current era. “Sunil would have been a sought-after batsman in T20,” Kapil was quoted as saying by the Sportstar in March. “Srikkanth started T20 in 1985 when he was smashing Imran Khan and Wasim Akram over cover and mid-off.

Source: Hindustan Times June 05, 2020 13:45 UTC