Sunil Gavaskar has hailed India's aggressive batting transformation under the leadership of Rohit Sharma, suggesting that the style be named ‘Gohit’ in honor of the skipper. This comes after India’s recent victory against Bangladesh in the Kanpur Test match, where their aggressive approach helped seal the win. While some have credited Gautam Gambhir for this change, Gavaskar believes Rohit Sharma is the true force behind the shift in India’s strategy.

In his column for Sportstar, Gavaskar pointed out that several terms, such as "Bossball" and "Gamball," have been thrown around to describe India's aggressive batting. However, he firmly rejected attributing this transformation to Gambhir, who is now part of India’s coaching staff, calling such claims "foot-licking of the highest quality."

Gavaskar argued that Rohit Sharma has been leading the charge for India’s modern batting approach for several years, even before Gambhir took on the coaching role. "While one paper called the Indian batting ‘Bossball’ because the captain or ‘boss’ of the team, Rohit, had shown the way, some from the old powers referred to it as ‘Gamball’ after the Indian coach, Gautam Gambhir," he wrote.

He further noted the impact of Sharma’s leadership, comparing it to the way England revolutionized their batting under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum. Gavaskar believes Rohit deserves all the recognition for encouraging India to adopt this aggressive style of play, which has brought significant success to the team. "While the England batting approach changed completely under the new regime of Ben Stokes and McCullum, we have seen over the last couple of years that Rohit has been batting like this and encouraging his team to do so as well," Gavaskar explained.

On the matter of credit being given to Gautam Gambhir, Gavaskar did not hold back. He highlighted that Gambhir has only been coaching the team for a short period, and his batting style during his playing days did not reflect this aggressive approach. "Gambhir has only been coaching for a couple of months, so attributing this approach to him is foot-licking of the highest quality. Gambhir himself hardly ever batted in this fashion like McCullum used to do. If any credit is due, it is solely to Rohit and nobody else," he added.

"Instead of using the words this-ball or that-ball, I would suggest using the skipper’s first name, Rohit, and term it the ‘Gohit’ approach. Hopefully, brainier people will come up with a trendier name for this rather than the lazy option of calling it after ‘Bazball’,"he concluded.