New Delhi. The Indian cricket team has reached Australia after the worst performance in its history. In such a situation, there is a need for the team to tell many players how to play in Australia. What kind of surge will there be and how to face it. But who will do this job of telling? Obviously, only the one who has played in Australia can do this work. Among the Indian coaching staff, only Chief Coach Gautam Gambhir has this experience. The rest of the staff does not even have the experience of playing Test matches. Perhaps that is why former captain Sunil Gavaskar raised questions on the Indian coaching staff in a show.
Sunil Gavaskar said in the Sports Tak program that the Indian team has a tough test in Australia. The players will have to be guided very well there. His coach for batting… After saying this, Gavaskar asks whether Abhishek Nair is a batting coach or an assistant coach. On this the anchor says that he does not understand whether Abhishek Nair and Ryan ten Doeschate are assistant coaches or batting coaches… On this Gavaskar smiles and says that but Gautam Gambhir has scored more runs than both of them in Test cricket. So Gautam Gambhir should teach all of them how batting should be done and what kind of approach. If we show what kind of restraint then perhaps our performance can be good.
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After this statement given by Sunil Gavaskar about the Indian coaching staff, Gautam Gambhir's figures went viral on social media. Gautam has played 58 matches in his Test career and has scored 4154 runs at an average of 41.95. But these are his overall figures. If we look at Gambhir's performance in Australia, it is very pathetic.
Gambhir scored 181 runs in 4 matches
Gautam Gambhir played 4 test matches on the Australia tour in 2011-12. He scored 181 runs in 8 innings of these matches at an average of 22.62. Gambhir was able to cross the 50-run mark only once in this series. His best score was 83 runs. That means in the remaining 7 innings only 98 runs came from his bat.
Nair and Ryan never played a test match
As far as India's assistant coach Abhishek Nair is concerned, he has played only 3 One Day International matches. He has never played a test match. Ryan ten Doeschate of Netherlands has played 33 ODI and 24 T20 International matches. Netherlands does not have the status of a test playing team. For this reason Ryan has never played a test match.
Tags: gautam gambhir, India vs Australia, sunil gavaskar, Team india
FIRST PUBLISHED : November 12, 2024, 10:59 PM IST
