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India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir The team is under a lot of pressure from all corners for their performance in the recent Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Gambhir has now been criticized by the former Australian spinner Brad Hogg For his earlier comments regarding Indian adaptation.
Before the five match test Series Against Australia, Gautam Gambhir had said that India needs to adapt accordingly. However, Hogg feels that the Indian team will only play aggressively.
According to the former left-arm wrist-spinner, a team needs to know how to defend if they want to save a Test match. But India’s ultra-aggressive style took a toll on them, leading to a blitz of wickets.
Brad Hogg questioned India’s “traditionalism” under Gautam Gambhir
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Brad Hogg recalled Gautam Gambhir’s earlier comments that he wanted the Indian team to adapt. Hogg called on the Indian team to find out how to defend against their attacking game to save the Test match.
“One thing Gautam Gambhir said earlier is that he wants the players to adapt to the conditions, they have that aggressive brand of cricket, but when they have to save the Test match, they’ve got their defensive game. And I certainly haven’t seen that in the Indian team going forward,” Hogg said. he said .
It even cost the Indian team in Test matches. However, such a dominant performance earned them an unlikely victory in the two-match Test series against Bangladesh.
India naturally have powerful batsmen in the form of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill and so on. Nitish Kumar Reddy. In the second innings of the Sydney Test, Pant smashed a quickfire 61 off 33 balls.
Gautam Gambhir’s statement on Indian adaptation
India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir had earlier said that he wants his team to adapt to every situation. Gambhir wanted India to score 400 runs in one day and the bat to save the two-day Test match.
“We want to be a team that can score 400 runs a day and bat for 2 days to save the Test match as well. And what we need is growth and adaptation. And that’s what Test cricket really is. We have batsmen in the dressing room who can do both,” India Today reported.
However, adaptability has been missing so far in the Indian batting line-up. The batsmen could not stay at the crease for long and seemed to be itching to take the game forward sooner.
T20 cricket is believed to be one of the main reasons for the lack of defense of Indian batsmen. The players play a lot of T20 cricket and often return to score quickly rather than staying at the crease for long.
Brad Hogg on the future of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli
Brad Hogg blames Gautam Gambhir and his coaching staff for India’s downfall. He also spoke about Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s poor form which hurt India badly in the Test against Australia.
“So is it Gautam Gambhir who has to go or does a new head coach bring in his own coaching staff or the assistant coaches have to go as well. But I think they’ve got Rohit Sharma at this point. Virat Kohli is in there as well,” Hogg said.
“Obviously the two captains were not at the top of their game. So there are a number of variables that you can look at, which is India’s loss at Test level at some point,” he observed.
The upcoming Champions Trophy will be important for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and may decide their future. Both players are under a lot of pressure following their recent dip in form.
