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File picture of Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma.© AFP
On the primary day of the New Yr, a number of studies emerged that claimed there are rifts within the Indian dressing room. It occurred proper after India’s 184-run defeat to Australia within the Boxing Day Check on the Melbourne Cricket Floor. Head coach Gautam Gambhir is believed to have stated, “Bahut ho gaya (I’ve had sufficient) in his dressing room speech, with the dressing room atmosphere being ‘removed from supreme’. Whereas reacting to such studies, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar stated that these all tales are cooked by media to maintain the followers and their customers engaged. He backed his opinion by saying that such tales emerge solely after India lose a match.
“Every time the Indian team has not done well, these things about rifts and all that (come up). It is a common story. It’s almost as if we people feel that the Indian team cannot lose. So if they lose, there has to be some reason other than cricketing,” Gavaskar advised India As we speak.
“I don’t think any of the players really give a thought to what has been written. They just want to focus on how to get better than what they were in the previous Test,” he added.
Amid hypothesis of unrest within the dressing room following an enormous loss within the Boxing Day Check, Gambhir additionally clarified in a presser that it had been “just reports, not truth”.
NDTV, by means of its sources, has understood that Rohit is prone to be “rested” for the fifth Check vs Australia. One other level that has put doubts over Rohit’s choice for the sport that Gambhir got here for the press convention on the eve of the sport. The occasion is normally attended by the crew captain.
Looking for out the rationale behind it, Gavaskar stated: “The captain addressed the media just two days ago, so maybe he felt that he didn’t need to address the media again and the coach had not addressed the media at all. So maybe the coach had to come and say that nothing of that sort had happened, which again should tell you a thing or two about those reports.”
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