Gautam Gambhir urges team to keep batting aggressively, wants to keep backing youngsters like Abhishek Sharma

India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has urged the team to keep batting aggressively and take the opposition head-on after the hosts registered a 4-1 series win against England with a comprehensive 150-run win in the fifth T20I at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Sunday.

Abhishek Sharma was the star of the show as he scored a blistering knock of 135 runs off only 54 balls as he breathed down the neck of the opposition bowlers with his blistering batting.

Sharma reached his fifty off just 17 balls and then completed his century off 37 balls. The southpaw’s knock was laden with seven fours and 13 sixes and he was awarded Player of the Match.

Gambhir said they want to keep batting aggressively and wants to post more than 200 runs on the board on most of the occasions in T20Is.

Gautam Gambhir told broadcasters after the win, “England are a very high quality side. We don’t want to fear losing a game. We want to get to a total of 250-260, and at times we will get bowled out for 120, but we are on the right track. We are going to do this going forward, got to play fearless cricket. We want to keep backing players like Abhishek Sharma. We have to be patient to with these boys, it’s important to keep backing them. Most of these boys believe in the ideology of playing fearless cricket.”

Gambhir lauded Abhishek Sharma for his whirlwind knock and said he hasn’t seen a better T20 century in his career.

The chief coach added, “I haven’t seen a better T20 hundred (Abhishek’s ton) against bowlers who are bowling at 140-150 kph consistently. They (these players) have played a lot of cricket against each other. That’s all Indian cricket is all about us. When results start going your way, everything goes well.”

The first ODI between India and England will be played at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur on Thursday.