Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar has urged the Board of Control for Cricket in India to increase the boundary sizes in home matches. Gavaskar reckons the Indian players should get used to longer boundaries before the all-important World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Meanwhile, Indian batters had shone while playing on flat decks and on grounds, which had small boundaries in IPL 2026. However, the same set of batters did struggle to get going in UK conditions and on bigger grounds in England.

India suffered a 0-2 series loss against Ireland, then they were outplayed by England 4-0 and at last, suffered a 1-2 series loss against Harry Brook’s team.

Sunil Gavaskar wrote in his column of Sportstar, “It’s absolutely imperative, when the new Indian season begins, to get the boundary sizes increased so that our batters get used to that before the World Cup next year. At virtually every ground, there is plenty of space for people to walk behind the LED advertising boards, so it tells you that if this space is utilised, the boundary size will automatically increase.”

The Little Master said the bigger boundaries will give more freedom to the spinners to bowl slower through the air and give more flight to the ball.

“The bigger boundaries will also give our spin bowlers the opportunity to bowl a bit slower so that they can get the loop and turn that a slower delivery produces. The medium-pace darters they currently bowl actually help the batter use the pace, get under the ball and power it into the stands. Adil Rashid and Will Jacks bowled almost 8 to 10 km/h slower than the Indian spinners and so were far more effective than them,” wrote Gavaskar (via the aforementioned source).

India registered a much-needed 3-0 win against Zimbabwe to get back to winning ways in T20Is.