New Delhi: Batting legend Sunil Gavaskar today criticised the performance of India's top-order batsmen save Murali Vijay terming their effort as "below-par" despite the pitch being a tricky one.

Asked about how would he rate the performance of the specialist batsmen with India scoring 215 in their first innings, Gavaskar told NDTV:"It was below par apart from Murali Vijay, who got a top class delivery. The other batsmen were out playing shots which one would not play when they are confident and among runs."