Former India opener and present head coach Gautam Gambhir is going through mounting stress after Team India’s worrying run in Test cricket, regardless of continued success in white-ball codecs together with profitable the Champions Trophy. The newest setback got here at Headingley, the place India, underneath new captain Shubman Gill, misplaced to England by 5 wickets. This provides to earlier sequence defeats in opposition to New Zealand and Australia. India have now received solely one in every of their final 9 Tests underneath Gambhir’s watch. The stretch features a 3-0 whitewash in New Zealand and a 3-1 loss to Australia that noticed India give up the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. This tough patch has coincided with a transition interval marked by the retirements of senior gamers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma from Test cricket following the Australia sequence loss. A contemporary workforce underneath Gill’s management remains to be settling in, however the begin in England has been disappointing.
Former India batter Aakash Chopra analysed the state of affairs on his YouTube channel, urging endurance with Gill however warning of rising stress on Gambhir. “There is a lot of pressure on Gautam Gambhir. The pressure is absolutely mounting. He has won two matches against Bangladesh and one against Australia, but we lost three to New Zealand, three to Australia and now one to England. He has been losing and losing.”Quiz: Who’s that IPL participant? Chopra harassed there are not any excuses left. “The selectors have given everything the coaching staff has asked for. So, if this is the case, then you also need to deliver the results. Period.” With the England sequence now finely poised, Gambhir’s management in the red-ball format is underneath the highlight like by no means earlier than
