Gautam Gambhir led India clean sweep home Test series: Under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir, Team India faced a clean sweep in the home Test for the second time.

New Delhi: India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir is being heavily criticized after the 2-0 series defeat in the home Test against South Africa. Gambhir’s coaching This is the second time that a foreign team has come to India and made a clean sweep in the Test series. Before South Africa, the New Zealand team had made a clean sweep of the Indian team 3-0 at home in the year 2024.

To a large extent, Gautam Gambhir is being held responsible for this failure in the domestic Test series. Ever since Gautam Gambhir became the coach of India, huge changes have been seen in the team. It was under Gambhir’s coaching that senior team player Ravichandran Ashwin suddenly announced his retirement during the Australia tour. After this, before the England tour, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma also said goodbye to the Test format. The internal reason behind this retirement is believed to be differences with Gambhir.

Has Gautam Gambhir become desi Greg Chappell?

At present, the way Gautam Gambhir is running the Indian team, he is being compared with former coach Greg Chappell. When Greg Chappell became the coach of Team India, in the name of experiment, he insisted on sidelining the senior players and promoting new faces, but he was a complete failure. Something similar is being said for Gautam Gambhir also. Especially regarding team selection, serious questions are being raised on their strategy in the match.

Recently, he included Nitish Reddy playing in the Guwahati test match against South Africa. Nitish is a pace bowling all-rounder, but only a few overs were bowled to him. Kuldeep Yadav will have to be sent as night watchman or Washington Sundar will be used at number three. Questions are being raised on all these decisions of Gambhir. Cricket experts believe that Gambhir is doing his own thing in Team India. Even in the selection, Gambhir chooses his favorite players, due to which the performance of the Indian team has also been affected.

Team India’s test record under Gambhir’s coaching

When Gautam Gambhir became the coach of Team India, the winning percentage in the Test series under his leadership has been 36.84 percent. The Indian team has played a total of 19 matches under Gambhir’s coaching, out of which it has won only 7 and lost 10 matches. Two matches have been drawn. During this period, apart from South Africa, Team India had to face a clean sweep at home against New Zealand. In this way, Gambhir’s record in coaching for Team India has been very disappointing.