The debate regarding the period of change in India’s Test team is continuously increasing. After the arrival of head coach Gautam Gambhir, Team India’s performance in white ball cricket has been very strong. Whereas in the red ball format the situation seems opposite. The embarrassing 0-2 home Test series defeat against South Africa has raised many questions. Were Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and R Ashwin dropped from the team so soon? Could the results have been different had he been there?

Amidst this debate, R Ashwin created a new controversy by giving a statement on his YouTube channel. Ashwin said that if he, Kohli and Rohit had been given time and clarity, these players could have made the transition in the team easier.

Ashwin’s statement

Ashwin believes that no clear plan was given by the team management and selectors regarding the future. For this reason the players themselves had to take difficult decisions. Ashwin said, “There should be a clear path for transition. When there is no clarity, the decision has to be taken on one’s own. Virat could groom the players, Rohit could do it, I too could do it. Sharing the experience with the players has been our strength.”

Fans also believe that if Rohit and Kohli were in the team, the performance against South Africa might have been better. However, Team India’s great batsman Sunil Gavaskar does not completely agree with this.

Gavaskar’s strong counterattack

Sunil Gavaskar said that the decision of retirement was the players’ own. It is wrong to say that if he had been in the team, India would not have lost the series. He reminded that even when these three players were there, the team had suffered many big defeats. During a conversation with Aaj Tak, Gavaskar said, “The decision to take retirement was his own. It is not correct to say that we would have won had he been there. Earlier also we had lost against Australia by 0-3, when he was the same player. Therefore, it is wrong to think that he was dropped or his presence would have changed the result.”

The Indian cricket team lost another test series under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. South Africa won the 2-match Test series played in India 2-0. This defeat also raised questions on Gambhir’s coaching, he sent Washington Sundar to bat at number three in one test and in the next match, sent him down and played Sai Sudarshan in this position.

The strategy of keeping both the wicket keepers in the playing 11 in the form of Dhruv Jurel and Rishabh Pant was also a flop. All-rounders are being given importance in the team instead of test specialists, while they are not even being utilized. Like Nitish Kumar Reddy played the second test, but he bowled only 10 overs in both the innings. Here we have brought the report card of Gautam Gambhir. Know how many Tests India has played under his coaching, how many matches India won and how many lost. Here the record of Test series under his coaching is also given.

Gautam Gambhir’s record as a coach in Test cricket

The Indian cricket team has played a total of 19 tests so far under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. Team India has won only 7 of these matches. The defeat against South Africa in Guwahati is India’s 10th defeat under Gambhir’s coaching.

• Total matches- 19
• won- 7
• Lose – 10
• draw-2
• Winning percentage- 36.84

India has lost 3 test series under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir

This was India’s sixth Test series against South Africa under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. India had lost the Test series against New Zealand by 0-3 at home, after which South Africa also defeated Team India in India. Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, India ended the 5-match Test series 2-2 on the England tour, after which it defeated West Indies 2-0 at home. But Team India failed completely in front of the World Test Champion team South Africa.

• Total series- 6
• Series won- 2
• Lost series- 3
• Series Draw- 1

Team India has lost 3 out of 6 test series played under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. After losing 0-3 at home to New Zealand in 2024, Team India lost the Border Gavaskar Trophy (2024-2025) series 1-3 against Australia. Now South Africa defeated Team India in India. This is the second time under Gambhir’s coaching that Team India has got a clean sweep in the Test series at home.

IND vs Eng Test Series: The exciting match of the Test series being played between India and England is at its peak. Fans are very keen on their favorite players batting and bowling as well as their fitness and diet. Nowadays cricketers are not only on the field, but also in the discussion due to their lifestyle and food. For this reason, this question is also constantly coming out that which players are vegetarian in the Indian Test team and who are non-vegetarian? Let’s know the entire inside story of Team India’s diet.

Players who follow vegetarian diet in Indian team

Team India veteran all -rounder Ravindra Jadeja comes from the traditional Gujarati Rajput family and has always been having pure vegetarian food. He loves homemade Gujarati plate.

Star batsman KL Rahul, who has recently scored a century against England, prefers vegetarian food. He not only left non -vegetarian a few years ago, but also made distance from dairy products. He is now fully on plant-based diet, which includes lady finger, masala dosa and fruits and vegetables.

Jasprit Bumrah, the important bowler of Indian pace attack, used to eat non -vegetarian food earlier, but now he is completely vegan. He has told that he has made this change in food for health and moral reasons and this has improved his recovery and energy level.

Non -vegetarian diet players

On the other hand, there are some players in the Indian team who consider meat to be an important source of their energy. The team’s young captain Shubman Gill is fond of eating non -veg. According to media reports, butter chicken and lamb curry are his favorite dish.

Wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant, who scored history by scoring two centuries in a single innings against England, adopts a non -vegetarian diet. Butter chicken is included in their favorite dish. He is known for food and drink and non-veg is part of his regular diet.

Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, who is opening for the Indian, has told many times that he loves chicken biryani and mutton and his diet includes carnivores.

Sai Sudarshan, who recently debuted in India’s Test team, is also a non -vegetarian. Although keeping in mind the fitness, he has distanced distance from junk food like pizza and pasta, but non -vegetarian is still an important part of his diet.

After 8 years, Karun Nair, who is returning to the Indian team after 8 years, is very fond of eating and drinking and also eats non-veg. They are not tied to any type of diet.

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur’s childhood was spent in a farmer family, but his diet also includes non -vegetarian food. He has admitted to liking non -veg on many occasions.

The Indian team’s wicket -bowler fast bowler Mohammad Siraj also prefers non -vegetarians and he once served Hyderabadi Biryani at his home. Famous Krishna also eats non -veg and describes butter chicken as his favorite dish.

The Indian cricket team will play a 5 -match Test series on England tour. Before the team selection for this tour, Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket. On May 12, Virat on 12 and 5 days before that Rohit Sharma said goodbye to the Test. Now the statement of 2 former captains of Pakistan has come on this, according to one, Virat could play comfortably till 2027, while the other said that Kohli should have received more respect.

Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad described Virat Kohli as the greatest player of the modern era. According to him, Kohli could play more for 2 years, he even said that the way Kohli took retirement, it seems that there is something else in the story.

Miandad said in a conversation with Telecom Asia Sport, “It cannot be denied that Virat Kohli has been a great player, match winner and excellent captain of modern times. The game that he loved, suddenly tells him to leave in such a way that there is more in the story. I think he could play comfortably by the end of 2027. Surely, there was a difficult period for him, but I have not had a great period, but I have no such time for him.

Virat Kohli was entitled to more respect- Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi said, “You can say a lot about Kohli. He is agitating, sometimes controversial, but you cannot ignore what he did for the Indian cricket team. He gave everything for the team and won the matches on his own. Players like him get to see very little, and they were once a different behavior. He also asked the BCCI to curb them.

Gautam Gambhir also took Virat-Rohit’s name during practice

The Indian team is currently practicing in Becanham. During this time, Gautam Gambhir took the names of Virat and Rohit by motivating the young players. He said, “We will play 3 most experienced (Kohli, Rohit and Ashwin) without players, look at it as an opportunity that you have to do something special for the country now.”