Gautam Gambhir on Pakistan Boycott: There will be no match between India and Pakistan in the 2026 T20 World Cup. At least the Pakistan government has made a similar announcement from its side. It remains to be seen what action the International Cricket Council (ICC) takes on this. Meanwhile, Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir was also asked a question on Pakistan’s boycott, his response was quite shocking.

Before the start of the T20 World Cup, Gautam Gambhir had reached the airport to leave for Mumbai. As soon as he got down from the car, media reporters surrounded him. Gambhir thanked the reporters, but did not say anything on Pakistan’s question. When Gambhir was asked a question regarding Pakistan not playing the match with India, he walked away without saying anything.

Gambhir was repeatedly asked questions about Pakistan, but he showed wisdom in maintaining silence. Let us tell you that as per the fixed schedule, the match between India and Pakistan is to be held in Colombo on 15th February.

Gautam Gambhir would like to win second ICC trophy

Gautam Gambhir would like to win the second ICC trophy for the Indian team as head coach. Before this, he had won the Champions Trophy 2025 title. Team India had registered a historic victory by defeating New Zealand by 4 wickets in the final of the Champions Trophy.

Now India is considered a strong contender to win the T20 World Cup 2026. After Gambhir became the coach, India has not lost a single T20 series. Let us tell you that India will play this tournament as the defending champion. In the 2024 final, Team India won the trophy by defeating South Africa by 7 runs.

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When he didn’t get a chance in India, this player took a flight to America! The one who played with Bumrah will captain US in the World Cup

After batting coach Abhishek Nair and Strength-Conditioning Coach Soham Desai, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has fired another old employee from the job. According to the news agency PTI, Rajiv Kumar, who has been massaging Indian players for a long time, has been fired. In the era of Gautam Gambhir, the period of replacement of support staff continues. Let me tell you that Rajiv was associated with Team India for more than a decade, he was also with the team on the tour of England but now he has not been given a new contract. This is the third time in the last 4 months when a staff member has been fired.

According to the report, the person present in an influential post in the board believes that the benefits of the staff staying with the team for a long time are less profitable. It has been an ideology that when the support staff is associated with the team for a long time, it develops a level of spontaneity with the players, which is not good for the team.

Ever since Gautam Gambhir has taken the post of head coach in place of Rahul Dravid, since then there has been a period of change in Team India. Batting coach Abhishek Nair has been evacuated, while fielding coach T Dileep was also fired by BCCI. However, he was called back to the England Tour. It is not yet clear whether T Dileep will continue to hold the post of Fielding Coach in the Asia Cup 2025.

Current Member in Indian Support Staff

In the Indian Support Staff, Gautam Gambhir is sitting on the post of Head Coach. Along with Ryan Ten Doshe assistant coach, fielding coaching is also done. Sitanshu Kotak Batting, while Morne Morkel is a bowling coach. Raghavendra Dwivedi is a throdow specialist.

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There is going to be a big change in the selection committee of the Indian cricket team. Recently, the tenure of Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar was extended till June 2026, while 2 new selectors are reported to have come. According to Cricbuzz, the BCCI selection is going to recruit 2 new recruitment in the panel, for which the last date for application is 10 September. The board has not yet made it clear who will take place of whom, but it was definitely told that two new selectors can come from Central and South Zone.

According to the report published in the cricbing, former India cricketer Pragyan Ojha can replace S Sharat from South Zone. Sharat’s term is over, but the report has no name for the selector coming from the Central Zone.

Qualification for the post of selector

The qualification for the post of National Selector will remain the same as before. The applicant should have at least 7 Test matches or 30 first-class matches. At the same time, applicants playing 10 ODIs or 20 first-class matches will also be considered. Let us tell you that the contract of selectors is renewed each year. A BCCI official said that it has not yet been decided which selectors will be replaced, this process will be started soon.

Who in the current selection committee

Apart from Ajit Agarkar, the current selection committee is being led by SS Das, Subroto Banerjee, Ajay Ratra and S Sharat in the committee. All of them had approved the Herial Squad for the Asia Cup 2025. The job of a selection committee has to be selected for series or tournament at senior and junior levels as well.

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Shubman Gill has passed his first test as a captain. Big giants were engaged in predicting that the Indian team would have to face a big defeat in England. Gill not only scored 754 runs in the series, but also took many good decisions as a captain. Finally, Team India was successful in getting the series a 2–2 draw. Despite the best performance of Shubman Gill, Mohammad Siraj and KL Rahul, 3 shortcomings of Team India have been exposed in the England series.

Number-3 batting

It has been more than 2 years since Cheteshwar Pujara dropped from Team India, but the number-3 problem is not taking the name of ending. After Pujara, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill was tested on this sequence. At the same time, Karun Nair and Sai Sudarshan batting on this sequence on England tour, but both flopped. Sai Sudarshan scored just 140 runs in 6 innings while batting at number-3 in the series against England. On the other hand, Nair got four opportunities on this order, in which he could score just 111 runs.

Fitness became a complex problem

Jaspreet Bumrah comes to the first name in the mind when the case of fitness arises. Due to workload, he played only 3 Tests in England. Bumrah’s fitness pole was revealed when his bowling speed started falling when he played in 2 consecutive Test matches in Lord’s and Old Trafford. As a result, he could not play the fifth Test. Nitish Kumar Reddy can fulfill the shortage of good fast bowling all -rounder in the Test team, for this he has also got frequent opportunities, but he was out of the team due to a knee injury.

At the same time, Akashdeep has been effective in the early matches of his Test career, but he too had a problem of lower abdomen pain during the Test series. In such a situation, it was difficult for Team India to prepare the playing XI combination for the fourth Test. This is a very worrying topic and the question arises whether Indian players need to pay more attention to fitness.

Kuldeep Yadav does not trust

Kuldeep Yadav was the only chief spinner in the Indian squad who went on England tour. Kuldeep was repeatedly excluded from the playing XI citing depth in batting. Rist spinner Kuldeep could have left a very good impact on England’s pitches. It has been 8 years since he makes his test debut, after which only 13 Tests play very questions. Repeatedly, the Indian team management was advised to give Kuldeep a chance to the wrist spin bowling, but has the management’s trust in Kuldeep completely raised?

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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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India vs south Africa 2025 schedule: These days the thrill of IPL 2025 is at its peak in India, this tournament will run till 25 May. After that the schedule of the Indian cricket team is going to be very busy. Now the entire schedule of the South African team’s tour of India has come out. This year, a series of five T20 and three ODIs will be played between India and South Africa during November-December month. Apart from this, India also has to play series against Australia, Bangladesh and West Indies.

India vs South Africa: Full schedule

The start of the ODI series between India and South Africa, with 3 matches in Ranchi, Raipur and Vijg. At the same time, the series of five T20 matches will start from December 9 and the last match of the series will be played on 19 December.

• First ODI – 30 November – Ranchi
• Second ODI – 3 December – Raipur
• Third ODI – 6 December – Vijg
• First T20 – 9 December – Cuttack
• Second T20 – 11 December – Nagpur
• Third T20 – 14 December – Dharamshala
• Fourth T20 – 17 December – Lucknow
• Fifth T20 – 19 December – Ahmedabad

India’s schedule after IPL 2025

After the conclusion of IPL 2025, Team India has to visit England, where five Tests are to be played between the two teams. After that India also has to go on a Bangladeshi tour. The T20 Asia Cup will be played in September. After the Asia Cup, the West Indies team will come to India for 2 Test matches, both these matches can be played in Mohali and Kolkata. Before the series against South Africa, the Indian team will visit Australia for 3 ODIs and five T20 matches. Let us know that South Africa also has to play 2 Test matches against India.

Meanwhile, the 2025-27 cycle of the World Test Championship will also begin. Well at present, the focus of Indian players is on IPL 2025, so that India can also get some new faces for the 2026 T20 World Cup.

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