As per me, The Answer is as follows, and can be found out from some facts given in the NCERT book itself:
1. We NEED friction to start rolling motion, which ofcourse is a combination of translation and rotation. The friction provides the torque for the rotational motion.
2. We DO NOT NEED friction to continue rolling motion. When rolling takes place, there is no velocity of the "point of contact" and it is at rest, and no friction is required for all this.
So, if the ice is actually totally frictionless, then you can't roll the sphere at all, by giving a gentle push, anywhere you wish. So what you must do, to achive a sphere rolling on pure frictionless ice, is that you have to rotate it before putting it on ice, and the give it your "gentle push". The rotation will not be altered as there is no friction to give any sort of torque, and the translation will be due to the push. Combined, it will be a rolloing motion on ice.
CAUTION: The ice must be totally frictionless for thhis. Any observation different from this will arise because of friction arising, due to any possible factor in the environment we have not considered.