Indian cricket crew head coach Gautam Gambhir took a large ‘social media’ dig at his critics forward of the Border-Gavaskar Check collection in opposition to Australia. Gambhir’s ways have come underneath hearth following India’s 0-3 Check collection loss in opposition to New Zealand at house. There was a variety of chatter over a variety of Gambhir’s methods and media stories instructed that there was some disagreement between him and the crew administration over some alternatives. Nevertheless, within the press convention forward of the crew’s departure to Australia, Gambhir mentioned that he’s not feeling the warmth and put his belief on the “powerful folks” within the Indian dressing room.
“What distinction does social media make in my life, and for anybody’s life? Once I took up this job, I at all times knew that it was going to be a extremely tough job and a extremely prestigious job as properly. I do not suppose as if I am feeling the warmth as a result of my job is to be completely trustworthy,” Gambhir mentioned.
“There are some extremely powerful folks in that dressing room who’ve achieved some nice issues for the nation and can proceed to attain some nice issues for the nation. So it is an absolute honour to be teaching them and training India,” he added.
Gambhir has come out within the defence of senior batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma following criticism from former Australia captain Ricky Ponting, and mentioned the previous Aussie skipper ought to higher take into consideration his nationwide crew.
Ponting had not too long ago commented on Kohli’s type, suggesting that another participant with solely two centuries in 5 years wouldn’t have survived within the crew.
Addressing the media earlier than departing for Australia for the five-match Check collection, Gambhir responded to questions relating to the type of Kohli and Rohit. Terming Ponting’s opinions on Indian cricket ‘irrelevant’, the previous batter affirmed that each the massive weapons have a variety of ardour and starvation for the crew.
“By no means…Ricky Ponting ought to take into consideration Australian cricket, what issues he has for Indian cricket? Virat and Rohit are extremely powerful males. They’ve achieved rather a lot for Indian cricket and they’re going to proceed to attain rather a lot,” Gambhir mentioned.
“They nonetheless work actually laborious. They’re nonetheless passionate. They nonetheless need to obtain much more and that’s one thing which is essential. The starvation in that dressing room is extremely necessary for me and for your entire group of individuals as properly in that dressing room. I really feel there’s a variety of starvation, particularly after what has occurred within the final collection,” he additional added.
(With ANI inputs)
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