India, March 3 -- India great Sunil Gavaskar has said that cricket is all about mental strength and a player's body shape often has nothing to do with it amid the row over Congress's Shama Mohamed calling Rohit Sharma "fat". Gavaskar said that batting well and long and scoring runs is what matters and if you do that, the rest of the factors hardly matter.

"I have always said, if you want only slim guys, then you should go to a modelling competition and pick all the models. It's not about that," said Gavaskar on India Today.

"It's about how well you can play cricket. We talked about Sarfaraz Khan-he was vilified for a long time because he was on the heavier side. But if he scores 150 for India in a Test match and follows it up with anoth...