Indian batting has quality to take on any spin unit: Gautam Gambhir

India head coach Gautam Gambhir has dismissed concerns about the team's recent struggles against quality spin bowling. He emphasized that India's batting line-up has enough strength to face any spin unit. Gambhir also praised the bowling quartet of Bumrah, Shami, Ashwin, and Jadeja for transforming India into a bowlers' game.

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India head coach Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday dismissed concerns surrounding Indian batters' recent struggle against quality spin bowling , saying that the line-up has enough firepower to take on the best in the world. Speaking to media on the eve of the two-Test series against Bangladesh, Gambhir also said that the bowling quartet of pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah , Mohammed Shami , R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja has managed to offset India's obsession with batting. "Our batting unit has so much quality that it can take on any spin unit," Gambhir asserted after being asked about the line-up's struggles in last month's white-ball series against Sri Lanka, especially in the ODI leg that India lost.

"There is a lot of difference between ODIs and Tests," he said. He also heaped praise on the team's bowlers. "India once was a batting-obsessed nation.



But Bumrah, Shami, Ashwin and Jadeja have turned it into a bowlers' game," he pointed out. (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel ).