On Saturday, December 20, BCCI had announced the Indian squad for T20 World Cup 2026. Shubman Gill’s absence from this squad remains a topic of discussion. On one hand, Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar did not give any clear answer. Captain Suryakumar Yadav said that the reason for Gill’s absence was not his form.

A few hours after the announcement of the Indian squad, Indian cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir was seen at the Delhi airport, where he was asked questions by media reporters about the dropping of Shubman Gill. On this Gambhir left from there without replying.

This video has also become the center of discussion on social media. In which it can be seen that some media reporters asked questions to Gambhir, but he left the garden shaking. Gill’s drop is also shocking because Gill had been the vice-captain of the T20 team for the last few months.

Shubhman Gill was last seen playing in the T20 series against South Africa, where he was able to score only 32 runs in 3 innings. Due to injury, he could not play the fourth and fifth T20 matches. However, according to some reports, Gill wanted to play in Ahmedabad. But the team management had already decided to drop him from the squad.

#WATCH Indian Men’s Cricket Team Head Coach Gautam Gambhir arrives in Delhi

BCCI today announced India’s squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026. pic.twitter.com/RbqVtaixyR

— ANI (@ANI) December 20, 2025

What did Ajit Agarkar say on Gill?

Team India’s Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar said on the dropping of Shubman Gill, “Shubman Gill was the vice-captain, but is no longer in the team. Earlier, Akshar Patel was the vice-captain of the T20 team. Talking about continuity, you have to keep many combinations in mind. If your wicketkeeper will bat in the top order, Jitesh Sharma was also an option. Shubman Gill is an excellent player, it is unfortunate that he is out.”

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Before the start of India vs South Africa Test series, Gautam Gambhir has come to visit Kalighat temple. The first test match is to be played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata from 14th November. Let us tell you that 2 matches are to be played in this test series. The second match will be played in Guwahati from 22nd November. Even before the start of the series, Gambhir has been visiting temples at various places. Let us tell you that this home series is very important for the Indian team to reach the top-2 of the World Test Championship 2025-27 and strengthen its claim for the final.

Kolkata, West Bengal: Indian cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir visits Kalighat Temple pic.twitter.com/YvEMvrVYHX

— IANS (@ians_india) November 11, 2025

Gautam Gambhir had also visited Kalighat temple twice in the year 2024. He went to visit Kalighat temple once as a mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders and second time after becoming the head coach of the Indian cricket team.

Gautam Gambhir had recently expressed condolences to the people and their families killed in the Delhi blasts. Last Monday evening, there was an explosion in a car near the Red Fort metro station in Delhi, in which many people are reported to have lost their lives.

Ever since Gautam Gambhir became the head coach, the performance of the Indian team in the Test format has not been very good. Team India has won Test series against Bangladesh and West Indies in the last one year. During this period, the Indian team had to lose the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-1 in Australia, after which the series in England was drawn 2-2. The Indian team had lost 0-3 to New Zealand in the home test series.

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Indian cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir is known for his frankness in expressing his views. Now, during the India-West Indies Test series, he has given a big statement, in which he said that he is ready to bear all the criticism for Shubman Gill. Gambhir said that he always says one thing to Gill that he will continue to get full support. Gambhir is excited to see how Gill does as captain when his team is stuck in a difficult situation.

Gill, who was given the captaincy of the Test team after the retirement of Rohit Sharma this year. He has now also become the captain of the ODI team and will be seen captaining Team India for the first time in a white ball match on the Australian tour. India-Australia ODI series is going to start from October 19.

On Shubman Gill’s captaincy, coach Gautam Gambhir said, “He is the captain of the ODI team. I want to see how he reacts when the team is in a difficult situation. This could be for his individual performance as well as for the team. I have always told him one thing: I will always support and protect you.”

I am ready to bear all the criticism…

Gautam Gambhir further said, “My job is to take the pressure off him. As long as he keeps doing good for the team and remains honest and transparent with the players in the dressing room. I will be ready to bear all the criticism for him. This is the only way to get respect.”

In the second Test against West Indies being played in Delhi, Shubman Gill had broken many big records by playing an unbeaten inning of 129 runs. This is the 10th century of his Test career. His innings helped India reach the score of 518 in the first innings.

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The day of 28 September will be remembered in Indian cricket history for decades. On the same day, Team India defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets in the Asia Cup final, but Indian players had to return without trophy. Hardik Pandya could not play due to injury in this title collision. In such a situation, Gautam Gambhir made such a strategy, which made India only by making India the Asia Cup champion. Captain Suryakumar Yadav himself has revealed this.

Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav told during a conversation with Revspports that he trusts Gautam Gambhir’s strategies a lot. He told how Shivam Dubey’s entry was replaced by Hardik Pandya. Gautam Gambhir was confident that Dubey would prove to be important on an important occasion and in reality it happened.

Suryakumar trusts Gautam Gambhir by closing his eyes

Suryakumar Yadav said, “When I look at the dugout after every 2-3 overs, they always have something for me. Because the match looks very different from outside the field. Many things are going on in my mind, whom to bowl and how to make fielding. Whatever they sit outside, I think so much.

Gautam Gambhir’s strategy did wonders

Suryakumar also further told that unfortunately Hardik Pandya could not play the final match due to injury. He told that the team needed an additional batsman due to being out of Hardik, because Gill and Abhishek were doing very brilliant batting, but any time can be spoiled by anyone.

Suryakumar Yadav said, “Anytime the team can lose 4 wickets. Anything can happen in cricket. So we needed an additional batsman. He said that Shivam Dubey will take this responsibility. I asked him, ‘What do you believe’. He showed full confidence in Dubey and we flagged off his decision. “

Shivam Dubey really played a big innings on the important occasion, proved to be a big hero of India’s victory. Shivam Dubey came to batting when India lost 4 wickets on a score of 77. The team still had to score 70 runs to win. Dubey scored 33 runs in 22 balls in a pressure position and did a 60 -run match winning partnership with Tilak Verma.

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Oval Test, fifth day and England wanted only 35 runs. The game was barely going to last for one or one and a half hours, but the fans reached the ground to see the chase of 35 runs in thousands. Mohammad Siraj and famous Krishna’s deadly bowling had already covered England 6 runs. As soon as Siraj bowled Gas Atkinson, Team India jumped and on the other hand there was an atmosphere of happiness in the dressing room. After this victory, Team India’s bowling coach Morne Morkel lifted the head coach Gambhir in his lap like a child.

As the thrill of the match was increasing, the support of the support staff present in the Indian dressing room was increasing. BCCI has shared a video clip, which shown the thrill of the last 2 wicket and the reaction of the Indian dressing room on it. Indian bowlers were constantly dodging England’s tail batsmen. Meanwhile, when the wicket fell, Gautam Gambhir started clapping like a child.

Gautam Gambhir became emotional

As soon as Mohammad Siraj dismissed Gas Atkinson, the atmosphere of the Indian dressing room changed. Head coach Gautam Gambhir was so excited that he started dancing and in this enthusiasm, Morne clung to Morkel’s lap. At the same time, when Gautam Gambhir came to the ground, Ravindra Jadeja also lifted him in his lap.

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Raw emotions straight after #Teamindia‘S SPECIAL WIN at the Kennington Oval #ENGVIND pic.twitter.com/vhrfv8ditl

– BCCI (@Bcci) August 4, 2025

Assistant coach in the Indian team, Ryan Ten Doshe also started dancing in joy, the other support staff also had no place for happiness. England captain Ben Stokes could not stop himself due to praising the Indian team and especially Mohammad Siraj. Let us know that Siraj dismissed a total of 9 wickets in the Oval Test and 23 batsmen in the entire series.

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After the T20 World Cup 2024, Gautam Gambhir became the head coach of the Indian cricket team. After his coach, Team India has done well in white ball cricket, but the Indian team has been seen struggling in Test matches. After his coach, India has lost against Australia, New Zealand, while now Team India is trailing 1-2 in the series against England. Now Harbhajan Singh has given such a advice, due to which Gautam Gambhir may have to give up coaching.

During the talks with India Today, Harbhajan Singh said that it would not be wrong to consider giving separate coaches to India’s white ball and red ball team, because the teams are different in these formats. Bhajji believes that workloads can be reduced slightly from different coaches in different formats.

Harbhajan Singh said, “I think different coaches can be appointed, there is nothing wrong in this. You have different teams for different formats. If we can do so, this will be the right decision. It will reduce the workload for everyone including coaches.”

India’s legendary spinner believes that a coach needs time to prepare before the series, even if the match is being played in any format. Let us know that India has never implemented ‘Spilate Coaching’, but in the recent past, VVS Laxman has been seen taking charge of coaching. This statement of Harbhajan is giving such a hint that if it is implemented, Gambhir will have to withdraw from the post of coach from at least one format.

If we look at the coaching records of Gautam Gambhir so far, India has won one of the 2 bilateral ODI series so far and has won the title of ICC Champions Trophy. India has won all its T20 series so far in Gambhir’s coaching, but after Gambhir became the coach, India has only won a Test series against Bangladesh.

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Ravi Shastri on Ind vs Eng: The Indian team was leading in the Leeds Test, gave England a huge target of 371 runs. Despite this, Team India lost the first Test by 5 wickets. In view of many aspects like poor fielding, lower order batting flop, the Indian team management had made three major changes in the playing XI of the second Test match. Jaspreet Bumrah also had a name among the players who were out. On being out of Bumrah, India’s legendary player Ravi Shastri had a lot of lactate to the Indian team management.

Ravi Shastri fiercely criticized the decision of the entire team management including Shubman Gill and coach Gautam Gambhir. Shastri said that after the defeat in the first Test, Team India needed to do the counter attack and Bumrah was required to be in the playing XI for the counter attack. He further said that India wants to return to the series by winning the next match, but it has given rest to the best bowler in the world.

Ravi Shastri was unable to believe in the decision to relax Jaspreet Bumrah. He said that the Indian team had got a week’s rest, he was shocked that Bumrah was not kept in the playing XI.

Akashdeep got his place

Akashdeep was placed in the playing XI in place of Jaspreet Bumrah. In fact, Akashdeep was India’s highest wicket bowler in the match. He took 4 wickets in the first innings and 6 wickets in the second innings took a total of 10 wickets in the entire match. Akashdeep’s performance has made it clear to a great extent that the Indian team can win even without Bumrah. However, the Indian team has a mental edge with Jasprit Bumrah’s joining the playing XI only, because Bumrah does not wander from bowling with his accurate length and takes constant wickets.

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IND vs Eng 2nd Test Nitish Kumar Reddy: India-Banam England is being played in the second Test Birmingham. In this match started on Wednesday, Team India got an invitation to bat first. Actually, when India’s playing XI came out after the toss, the team management was severely criticized. Sai Sudarshan, Shardul Thakur was seated outside, while Jasprit Bumrah was rested. He was replaced by Nitish Kumar Reddy, Akash Deep and Washington Sundar in the final-11. Meanwhile, a master-plan of Gautam Gambhir has failed.

It is being talked about Nitish Kumar Reddy, who has been fed as fast bowling all -rounder in the second Test. The team management had dropped Shardul Thakur to give him a place in the final-11. Thakur, who scored just 5 runs in both innings in the first match. Talking about bowling, captain Gill had very little bowling with him. Thakur bowls very well with New Ball and Semi New Ball, but in the first innings he was given the ball after 40 overs.

Nitish Kumar Reddy was brought to the playing XI, but he was dismissed for just 1 run. Seeing the Indian playing XI for the Birmingham Test, it was clear that Team India has tried to strengthen its batting. In such a situation, Nitish Reddy, who came to strengthen batting, has flopped badly in his first innings.

Talking about Nitish Kumar Reddy’s Test career, he has scored a total of 299 runs in 10 innings of 6 Test matches so far. He scored 114 runs in the match played at the MCG Ground in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for India. Apart from this, he has not been able to put a fifty in the test.

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Jasprit bumrah workload management: The five -Test series of India and England started on June 20. In the first Test match, Team India lost by 5 wickets, now the second Test will be played in Birmingham from July 2. Even before the start of this series, Jaspreet Bumrah has increased the tension of Team India. Actually it was already decided that Jasprit Bumrah would not play all Test matches against England. Now the head of the Indian team, Koch Gautam Gambhir has given a big statement on Bumrah’s playing.

In the press conference after the first Test match, Gautam Gambhir was asked when Jasprit Bumrah would play in the remaining 4 matches and when not. Responding to this, Gautam Gambhir said, “It is very important for us to manage his workload, because we have to play a lot of cricket and we know what Bumrah’s importance is in the team.”

It was already decided …

Gautam Gambhir said, “It was already decided that only 3 Test matches of the Bumrah series would play. It has to be seen whether his body feels fit or not. We have not yet decided which 2 Tests he will play in.”

Let us tell you that Jasprit Bumrah bowled 43.4 overs by mixing both innings in the first Test match. In the entire match, he took a total of 5 wickets and apart from this, he also made many chances of the wicket.

India-England Test Series Schedule

The second match of the Indo-England Test series will be played in Birmingham from July 2. The third Test will be played from July 10 and the fourth match will be played in Manchester from 23 July. The last match of the series will be played from 31 July at the Kennington Oval ground.

• Second Test: 2-6 July (Birmingham)
• Third Test: 10-14 July (Lords)
• Fourth Test: 23-27 July (Manchester)
• Fifth Test: 31 July-4 August (London/Kennington Oval)

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India Coach Gautam Gambhir: Indian cricket has entered a new era. Shubman Gill has become the new Indian Test captain, but he has failed in the first examination of captaincy. Head coach Gautam Gambhir has defended the players of Team India after a 5 -wicket defeat against England in Leeds. Gautam Gambhir’s Under Team India has won three Test series so far, in which his record has been very poor. Know here, how has the report card of Head Coach Gambhir’s under Indian team in Test format?

Gautam Gambhir’s coaching report card in Test

Gautam Gambhir was given the charge of the head coach of the Indian team after the 2024 T20 World Cup. After that Team India has played a total of 11 Test matches so far, out of which it has won only 3 wins, lost in 7 matches and a match was drawn. In Gambhir’s coaching, the Indian team has won only one series, which came against Bangladesh.

After Gautam Gambhir became the head coach, New Zealand has made Team India a clean sweep by coming to his house. After the year 2000, New Zealand became the first team that has made India a clean sweep in a Test series in his house. After that the Indian team suffered 1-3 defeat to Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The result of losing these 2 Test series was that India could not play the World Test Championship final of 2025.

It is also worth noting that Team India has not won any Test match after defeating Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Now the second Test match of India and England is to be played in Birmingham from 2 July.

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