Whatever message Gautam Gambhir is passing to India batters is not hitting home
Gautam Gambhir’s appointment as Rahul Dravid’s successor in July was greeted with much fanfare and enthusiasm. Indian coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Rohit Sharma chat in the nets The feisty former India opener didn’t have any coaching credentials, though he had donned a mentoring role at Lucknow Super Giants for two seasons and then at Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2024, when the team he led to two titles in 2012 and 2014 crowned itself champion for a third time. The 43-year-old’s honeymoon period lasted exactly one series, the T20I leg of the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka in July-August when India thrived on disastrous home collapses to complete a 3-0 sweep under new skipper Suryakumar Yadav. While it can’t be denied that he has had numerous public – and one imagines many more private – conversations with the batting group, the repeated implosions suggest that whatever message he is espousing hasn’t hit home. That’s become a feature of this team – Virat Kohli hasn’t addressed a press conference since September 2022, Rishabh Pant has been unavailable since his international return in June.
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