Amid the continuing feud between India head coach Gautam Gambhir and former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting, ex-cricketer Brad Haddin has revealed the rationale behind the disagreement between the 2. All of it kicked off after Gambhir replied to Ponting over his feedback on star India batter Virat Kohli’s regarding type forward of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Gambhir requested him to focus on Australian cricket as a substitute, earlier than the legendary batter fired a pointy retort, calling the India coach a prickly character.
Gambhir performed underneath Ponting at Delhi Capitals in 2018, which turned out to be his remaining season within the Indian Premier League (IPL) as a participant. He solely performed half of the video games that season, with Shreyas Iyer leadng the aspect for the remaining matches.
Nevertheless, Haddin teased to carry the lid on the backstory between the 2, which he reveal within the coming days.
“Gambhir is a personality that may use this as an us versus them mentality. And also you anticipate your coach to stay up for the gamers. His response was prickly there, and you do not want your coach to get caught up in that kind of state of affairs until his ways is to construct an us versus them. I do know what the backstory. I will inform you; simply wait until later of the week. There was somewhat elbow, suspensions and fines,” Haddin stated on LiSTNR Sport Podcast.
Haddin additionally in contrast Gambhir to Australian rugby coach Wayne Bennett, who usually tries to take the strain away from his group by taking the middle stage.
“It is out of the Wayne Bennett model of teaching. So we’re probably not speaking now about Rohit Sharma or [Virat] Kohli. We’re speaking about Gambhir and Ricky [Ponting]. With Gambhir, he has bitten again, taken the strain away from his group. It is all about him now; it is about how prickly he’s. And now he may be capable to go and put together his group. You’d wish to consider that he has a really clear plan on how they need to prepared,” he identified.
Whereas he did agree that Gambhir could be a “prickly character” at instances, Haddin questioned if the latter is doing this on goal, particularly along with his group underneath actual strain after shedding the collection to New Zealand.
“We all know he is a prickly character and might wind himself up. Is he doing this now to take it away from his teammates? I do not know. Solely time will inform. If it is an emotional response, then there’s an issue. But when he is doing it to deflect issues away and take it [attention] away from his group, that is a distinct factor,” he added.
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