The Indian team’s 0-2 defeat in the Test series against South Africa has raised many big questions. On one hand, Gautam Gambhir is under criticism due to his poor coaching record, on the other hand, people have started asking whether the Test team is moving in the right direction after the retirement of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin. Meanwhile, former Indian captain Kapil Dev says that the current team does not have batsmen like Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman.

Batsmen like Dravid and Laxman are no more

According to SupportStar, Kapil Dev said, “We are more busy with T20 and ODI, so the batsmen do not get bowling friendly pitches. On a pitch where spin and fast bowlers are supported, patience is a different level of skill. Once you are ready to play on such pitches, your mindset affects how you deal with them. You do not have batsmen like Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman, who knew how to play in the field. To survive means to bat in the middle.

Big statement given on Rishabh Pant

Kapil Dev said that Rishabh Pant’s natural style is to hit, hence he cannot be asked to play boldly. He said, “Footwork is important in playing spin bowling. You cannot ask Rishabh Pant to play defending because he is a real match winner. He will only look to hit the ball, he is not the kind of batsman who can score 20 runs in 100 balls. When he hits a six, everyone goes crazy. Can you tell him not to hit sixes? He is such a batsman who can destroy the opposition team.”

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Sanju Samson Batting Order In Australia Tour: The Indian team is going to tour Australia from 19th October. Here 3 ODI and 5 T20 matches will be played between India and Australia. Sanju Samson has been included in the T20 squad under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav. Sanju was part of the team in Asia Cup 2025. Runs were also seen from Sanju’s bat in the Asia Cup. Sanju Samson was also chosen Player of the Match in the match played against Oman in the Asia Cup. Many changes were seen in Sanju’s batting order in the Asia Cup. Sanju has given a clear message to head coach Gautam Gambhir regarding his batting order in Team India.

Samson gave message to Gambhir

This time Asia Cup 2025 was played in T20 format. Shubhman Gill was out of the Indian T20 team for a long time, then Sanju Samson was opening for the team, but as soon as Gill returned, Sanju was brought into the middle order and Shubhman Gill became the opening batsman along with Abhishek Sharma. There were several changes in Sanju Samson’s batting order in the Asia Cup.

Sanju Samson said at the CEAT Cricket Rating Awards that even if you ask me to bat at number 9 or ask me to bowl left-arm-spin or I am given any role for the country, I do not feel bad about it.

divert attention from outside noise

Sanju Samson further said that I have completed 10 years in international cricket and I have played only 40 matches in these 10 years. To be honest, these numbers alone don’t tell the whole story, but I am proud of the person I have become today. I am also proud of the challenges I have gone through. Now I have started focusing on my inner noise instead of the outside noise.

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Harshit Rana Selection in ODI and T20 Team: Team India has been announced for the tour of Australia. India has to play 3 ODIs and 5 T20 matches against Australia. For both these series, there are 7 players among the players in the squad, who are included in both ODI and T20 teams. But among these players, there is a player whose selection in the team has attacked former legendary cricketer and world champion Krishnamachari Srikanth, the head coach of the Indian team Gautam Gambhir.

Questions raised on Harshit Rana’s selection

There are continuous changes in the Indian team. For this, former cricketer Chris Srikanth questioned the management. K Srikanth said on his YouTube channel that ‘he is constantly confirming the players with such selection. Even we do not know when which player will be given a chance in the team. Suddenly Yashasvi Jaiswal is taken in the team and then the next minute he is seated out of the team. Srikanth further said that but such changes of players weaken their morale ‘.

Chris Srikanth further said that ‘there is only one permanent player in Team India, he is Harshit Rana. Nobody knows why they are in this team. You do not choose those players who are doing well, but take those players who are not doing anything ‘. Srikanth further said that ‘you should start preparing for the 2027 World Cup, but I think you are not doing so’.

Srikanth rained heavily on Gambhir

Chris Srikanth attacked Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir and said that it is right to be like Harshit Rana, who keeps on doing yes to him to be selected in the team. If you take Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy in the list of potential players, then you should forget the trophy of the World Cup ‘.

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Ind vs pak in asia cup 2025: A strong match will be played between India and Pakistan in the Asia Cup at 8 pm. Protests are going on across the country regarding this match. After the Pahalgam terror attack, the teams of India and Pakistan will be face to face for the first time on the cricket field today. From the players of the cricket world to their coaches, they are expressing their talk about this match. The coach of Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has called the players of the Indian team a warrior.

Gautam Gambhir’s head coach’s big statement

In the Asia Cup, Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir is also with Indian players in UAE. On the match against Pakistan, Gambhir’s childhood coach Sanjay Bhardwaj said that ‘players are also humans. If anyone harms their country, then the players also hurt. We also do not want to have relations with any person or country who can harm India ‘.

Sanjay Bhardwaj further said that ‘India is a strong team. We just want Team India to win a one -sided match and give us a chance to celebrate. Our players are warriors and they fight for the honor of the country ‘. Gautam Gambhir’s coach further said that ‘those who understand that India should not play against Pakistan, then those people should understand that we cannot show Pakistan back’.

‘Jung grounds will answer’

India’s fast bowler Mohammed Shami is not a part of Team India in the Asia Cup. But every player and his coach’s emotions are the same against Pakistan. Shami’s coach Badruddin Siddiqui said about the match with Pakistan that ‘there has been a long time between India and Pakistan. Nobody wants any kind of connection with Pakistan, but we have to play against Pakistan in the Asia Cup under compulsion. We will definitely play the match and the way we replied to Pakistan in the battlefield, we will give the same answer on the playground.

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Gautam gambhir on cheteshwar pujara retirement: Cheteshwar Pujara, the legendary player of the Indian Test team, has retired from all the formats of cricket. Pujara posted on his social media account on Sunday, August 24 and gave information about retirement from cricket. The news of Cheteshwar Pujara’s retirement surprised everyone. Pujara was out of the team for a long time. On the retirement of Pujara, the Indian team’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has also shared an emotional post.

Gautam Gambhir wrote an emotional post for Pujara

Recalling the cricket career of Cheteshwar Pujara, Gautam Gambhir wrote that ‘he still stood firmly, when the storm came, he continued to fight even when hope was also tarnished’. Along with these lines, Gambhir further wrote that ‘Best wishes Puji’. Gambhir said with these lines that Pujara’s career has been very good for Indian cricket. Pujara has always taken the team out of difficult situations. Pujara said thank you, while recosing Gambhir’s post.

He studs tall when the story raged, he fought when hope was fading. Congratulations Pujji @cheteshwar1 pic.twitter.com/0TJ836uoo9

– Gautam Gambhir (@Gautamgambhir) August 24, 2025

Cheteshwar Pujara’s brilliant career

Cheteshwar Pujara has more than seven thousand runs in Test cricket. Like the legendary Indian cricket player Rahul Dravid, this player was also called the wall of cricket, which always stopped the ball of the bowler with his bat. Pujara has scored 7,195 runs in 176 innings of 103 matches in his Test career at an average of 43.60. Pujara’s highest score in Test cricket was 206 runs. Cheteshwar Pujara played only five matches in ODIs, in which he scored only 51 runs. At the same time, Pujara never played a T20 match in international cricket.

Wearing the Indian Jersey, Singing the Anthem, and Trying My Best Each Time I Steppes on the Field – It’s impossible to put into words what it is true meant. But as they say, all good things must come to an end, and with immense Gratitude I have decided to retire from all forms of… pic.twitter.com/p8yod5tfyt

– Cheteshwar Pujara (@Cheteshwar1) August 24, 2025

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Akash deep shocking revival: India finished the five-match Test series with England at a 2–2 par. England won the first and third Test in this series, while Team India won the second and fifth Tests and was the fourth Test draw. All -rounder Akashdeep contributed significantly to the two matches in which India won. After this series, the Indian fast bowler has made a shocking disclosure about head coach Gautam Gambhir. Akashdeep told PTI that ‘they do more on me as much as I do not trust myself’.

What did Gautam Gambhir say to Akashdeep?

Akashdeep told PTI that coach Gambhir had told him that ‘you do not know your strength now. Look, I am telling you that you can do this. You will always have to play with this dedication ‘. Akashdeep further said about the head coach of Team India that ‘Gautam Bhai is a very obsessive coach. They always keep motivating us. They trust me more than me. They trust both my batting and bowling ‘.

Akashdeep rocked England

Akashdeep did not get a chance in the first Test match played in Leeds against England. But when this player was selected in the playing XI of the second Test in Birmingham, Akashdeep did not miss the opportunity to prove himself. Akashdeep took 10 wickets in both innings of this Test match and also took the first five wicket hall of his cricketing career.

Akashdeep played an important innings while batting brilliantly in the fifth Test at Kennington Oval. In India’s second innings, Akashdeep came to play as a night watman and he played an important innings for the team. Akashdeep played a brilliant innings of 66 runs in 94 balls, in which this player hit 12 fours.

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India may have won the Oval Test by 6 runs and got the series 2-2 equal against England, but Gautam Gambhir’s record is still not improved. It is being talked about the coaching record of Gautam Gambhir, which has been bad in Test cricket till now. Gambhir’s under India’s white ball teams have been excellent, but the figures in the red-ball format are very bad. Actually, ever since Gautam Gambhir became the head coach, India has not won any Test series against SENA countries.

Gautam Gambhir’s record ‘zero percent’

Gautam Gambhir has completed one year of the head coach of the Indian cricket team. While his coach, Team India has played a total of 4 Test series so far, out of which he has won only 2-0 win over Bangladesh. But India has not won any Test series so far against SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia).

This defeat started with New Zealand’s tour of India. In all three matches of the series, Team India suffered a crushing defeat. This was the first time in the last 12 years when India lost in a domestic Test series. At the same time, after the year 2000, the Indian Test team had a clean sweep for the first time in the domestic series.

After that the number of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy came, in which Team India went to Australia and lost 1-3. This was the first time since 2017 when the Kangaroos defeated India in the Test series. Now whether India has drawn series 2-2 against England, it has not had a good impact on Gautam Gambhir’s coaching records. His record of winning India’s Test series against the under SENA countries is still ‘zero percent’.

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Shubman Gill has started his journey as an Indian captain with England Tour. This series can lay the foundation of Gill’s great captaincy career, but this series can prove to be very harmful for Gautam Gambhir. In fact, former captain of England cricket team Mike Etharton believes that if India loses the series against England, the head coach Gautam will come under heavy pressure. After his coach, Team India has lost to Australia and New Zealand.

Gautam Gambhir in trouble!

Discussing Sky Sports, Mike Athrthon said, “India has lost 2 Test series. It was 3-0 to New Zealand at home, then the Border-Gavaskar Trophy was also 3–1. Now if he lost in this series against England, Gautam will come under serious pressure as a coach.

Etharton further said that in view of the resources with the Indian cricket team, people of India hope that whenever their team landed on the field, they came to win. The former England captain admitted that Gautam Gambhir’s difficulties will definitely increase with the defeat of three consecutive Test series.

Team India has played 3 Test series so far after Gautam Gambhir became a coach before the current series against England. India has found only Bangladesh defeated in them. But after that Australia and New Zealand have defeated Team India. At the same time, in England too, the Indian team can draw more and more series. However, India’s white ball teams have performed strongly in Gautam Gambhir’s coaching. After Gambhir became a coach, India has not lost any T20 series, while the Champions Trophy has been named in ODI format.

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Gautam gambhir in oval: The head coach of the Indian team Gautam Gambhir has got angry at the pitch curator at the Oval Ground. He is seen warning while showing a strong attitude in the serious eyes. The last Test match of the series between India and England will be played at this ground. News agency PTI has shared a video of the ongoing debate between head coach Gautam Gambhir and Chief Curator Lee Fortis.

VIDEO | Indian Team’s Head Coach Gautam Gambhir was Seen Having Verbal Spat with Chief Curator Lee Fortis at the Oval Cricket Ground in London Ahead of the Last Test Match of the Last Test Match of the Series Starting Thursday.

After having drawn the fourth test at old traffic, India has a chance… pic.twitter.com/HFJHOG9UPF

– Press Trust of India (@Pti_News) July 29, 2025

A sharp debate between Gambhir and Fortis

Team India was practicing before the fifth Test. Head coach Gautam Gambhir was also present with the team there. Gambhir is seen talking to the pitch curator in the beginning, but later he does not seem to be right about Lee Fortis and gets angry. In the video, India’s batting coach Sitanshu Kotak can also be seen intervening. What was a debate between Gambhir and Fortis, information about this has not been revealed yet.

The fifth test will be played at the Oval

The fifth Test match between India and England will be played at the Oval Ground in London. The match will start from 31 July and will run till 4 August. India has won only one match in the four matches so far and Team India has lost in two matches. At the same time, the fourth Test draw played in Manchester was done. Now if India will have to draw this series, then it is necessary for Team India to win the Oval Test match.

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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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