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Sunil Gavaskar Compares the Captaincy between Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane

Team India have been playing their second Test against Australia at MCG under the leadership of stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane. He has been leading the team in the absence of the regular captain Virat Kohli. However, former India captain and batting legend Sunil Gavaskar said that Rahane is aggressive with his tactics.

"Rahane is having a good Test match. He is playing a captain's innings, applying himself. Everyone has been complimentary about his captaincy, his field placements and bowling changes. I agree with them. He is calm and cool," said Gavaskar to ABC Sport.

"Virat (Kohli) is a lot more passionate and in your face of the opposition. Rahane is little more laidback and is calm. He lacks aggression in his body language but not in his tactics. He is quite aggressive with his tactics as captain. We saw that (aggression in field placings) with the leg-gully, slip and forward short leg (during Australia's first innings on Saturday)," added Gavaskar while comparing their captaincy.

Meanwhile, Team India have produced a great show so far where Rahane smashed his 12th Test century and steadied the ship along with Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja and took a lead of 82 runs.

On the other hand, former India pacer Ajit Agarkar feels the debutant Shubman Gill should have been included in the Test squad about two years ago. Gill made his debut in Tests on Saturday in India's second Test against Australia at MCG. He ended the day on 28 off 38 balls, whereas scored 45 before getting dismissed on the Day 2.

"He (Shubman Gill) should have got an opportunity a couple of years back. He just looks ready. You can see obviously he has got the potential," Ajit Agarkar said to Sony Sports. "Couldn't have been easy this little period but just grew in confidence with every ball that he played. Yes, got an opportunity, he has got that little bit of luck which you need at times. Hopefully, he can go on and make that count."