The Australian pace legend believed that Jasprit Bumrah may have to take hard decisions in order to prolong his career.
Speaking on SuperSport, Sunil Gavaskar opened up about the "quickest" bowler he ever faced and also shared a funny incident that fired up the pacer.
Team India coach's appointment is expected to be made before the side travels to the West Indies for a four-match Test series in July.
Jeff Thomson, 65, will be handed the Hall of Fame honour 20 years after his one-time fearsome bowling partner Dennis Lillee was part of the original intake of 10.
Jeff Thomson, considered by many to be the quickest bowler of all time, said that aspiring Indian pacemen should stop playing second fiddle to the country's spinners.
Sachin Tendulkar paid a visit to the Mumbai Ranji team and had an informal chat with former Australia tearaway, Jeff Thomson, who is the bowling coach of Mumbai for the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy season.
Jeff Thomson is in Mumbai as the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has roped him in for a month-long stint at its bowling academy where young pacers from around the city will be trained by the Australian legend.
The 64-year-old Jeff Thomson, who formed a deadly fast bowling partnership with Dennis Lillee that terrorised the world's batsmen in the 1970s, has been contracted to be the guiding force for a two-year term for the MCA-IDBI Life Insurance Bowling Foundation scheme.
Jeff Thomson played 51 Tests and 50 One-Day Internationals to claim total of 255 wickets. He was specially known for his unusual slinging bowling action and an aggressive approach which instilled fear in the hearts of several batsmen in 1970s.
After watching India succumb to England last year, Aussie pace legend Jeff Thomson says he had no doubt that the tourists would suffer the same fate Down Under.