When Sunil Gavaskar showed Travis Head his century celebration with floppy hat on his bat handle | Cricket News

Travis Head after scoring a blering ton against India in Adelaide did a cradling-the-ba celebration with his bat as a tribute to his second born and later continued his celebration putting his helmet on the bat. The following day in a heartwarming moment former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar went to Head and congratulated him. He also pulled out his phone to show him a photograph from his playing days, from a 1980s game against the Australians in India after he had hit a hundred.
Allan Border can be seen in the background, and in the front was Gavaskar holding his bat up to acknowledge the crowd’s applause after a hundred. On top of that bat was his sunny floppy hat. In Adelaide, Head would almost repeat the visual, just that he had the helmet instead of the hat. Both cricketers, an Indian legend and an Australian larrikin, would laugh and high-five. Gavaskar remained unbeaten on 166 in that knock.
The game ended up in a draw however, in the current clash Head’s ton was the game-changing inning and played as a catalyst for Australia’s win. He walked to the crease with the game delicately poised at 103/3. However, he took the game the scruff of its neck and scored a 141-ball 140 to help Australia level the series 1-1.
Head retreats to almost one spot, around the leg and middle, on the back foot primarily, crunching himself into that area as if he were traveling in a packed unreserved compartment of an Indian train and there is no space elsewhere. But he unleashes such mayhem from there, slashing, carving, stabbing, punching.
He might not be a classical batsman, but he is a batsman with a very specific and conscious method. stationing himself there, he casts this illusionary spell on the bowlers, dragging them into his space. A ball on off stump that can cramp up most batsmen appears as width to him.
Even Jasprit Bumrah was snared it, occasionally thinking he could hit that off stump, but would wince as Head, without foot movement of the conventional kind but maintaining balance and springing up with his knee flex, would slash him through backward point. The hands just fly.
The incident was reported The Indian Express journal Sriram Veera from Adelaide