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File photograph of India coach Gautam Gambhir and ex-BCCI president Sourav Ganguly© AFP
Gautam Gambhir has been below scrutiny since India misplaced the Border Gavaskar Trophy towards Australia. There have been studies that his place as India head coach could also be on a shaky floor. Within the midst of this, Gambhir got here below assault from former India batter Manoj Tiwary. Gautam Gambhir and Manoj Tiwary share a difficult historical past. The 2 clashed throughout their time in IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders. Additionally, on the 2015 Ranji Trophy, Bengal’s Tiwary and Delhi’s Gambhir had a heated argument throughout a sport on the Feroz Shah Kotla floor. The incident was coated by each media home because it occurred in broad daylight when the match was on.
Tiwary opened up on the combat and stated that Gambhir additionally attacked Sourav Ganguly. Tiwary stated Gambhir gave him ‘ma-behen ki gali’.
“I have never heard anybody give such abuses. If anybody abuses your mother, you should not take it lying down. I am not a person who can handle abuses quietly. I asked him, ‘Gauti bhai, why are you talking like this?’. Then the over got over. Then I lost cool. He said, ‘meet me in the evening, I will thrash you’. I said, ‘why evening? let’s do it now.’ The match was in Delhi. No player ever talked to me in that way. All media persons present heard all the words that came out from his mouth,” Tiwary stated on Lallantop.
“Umpire came in between and he pushed away him too. Then the over ended and I was at the non-striker’s end. He came to mid-off and started abusing me again. Umpires can’t do much. He is a big player, and they are afraid that he can use his influence against them. Then Sourav Ganguly was new to the Board. He started talking absolute non-sense about Sourav Ganguly. He accused him of using ‘source’ to enter. He even said that ‘you are doing the same thing’. He said this at the ground.
“Did you inform Sourav Ganguly concerning the incident?” the anchor asked Tiwary.
“He stated ‘thik hai’…the way in which he speaks, ‘dekhta hu’. My job was to inform him. I feel Gautam Gambhir has anger points,” Tiwary replied.
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