Bengaluru, Dec. 1 -- Sunil Gavaskar, one of India's cricketing icons, weighed in on the recent controversy surrounding South Africa coach Shukri Conrad's comment that he wanted India to "grovel" during the second Test in Guwahati, urging the coach to be mindful of the rich cricketing history shared by the two nations.
Conrad had stirred a debate after Day 4 in Guwahati Test, saying, "We didn't want to declare too early. obviously we wanted India to spend as much time on their feet out in the field. We wanted them to really grovel, to steal a phrase, bat them completely out of the game, and then say to them, 'Well, come and survive on the last day and an hour this evening."The phrase "to steal a phrase" shows Conrad knew he was using a prov...