BGT 2024-25: Gambhir to miss tour game for personal reasons
Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir will miss his side’s upcoming two-day tour game against the Prime Minister's XI in Canberra starting on November 30 due to personal reasons.
Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir will miss his side’s upcoming two-day tour game against the Prime Minister's XI in Canberra starting on November 30 due to personal reasons.
Nitish Kumar Reddy was primarily preferred over the seasoned spinning duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja for the opening Test against Australia to ease off the pressure from the frontline quicks in Perth
With three days remaining for the opening Test at the Optus Stadium in Perth, the Indian think tank led by head coach Gautam Gambhir has been challenged on several fronts.
“Their last two series wins out here they had Ravi Shastri who was fantastic,” Paine said.
While Gambhir is hopeful of Rohit’s availability, he is also happy with the options — both from an opening and leadership standpoint, in case Rohit doesn’t make it.
Gambhir and Afridi have been involved in a long-standing war of words since the latter's scathing criticism of the former India batsman in his autobiography.
One of the problems with team India in the recent ICC events has been their inability to take their momentum of the league stage into the knockouts.
Earlier, the batsman had said that he felt he still has a World Cup left in him.
The last time India and Pakistan played a bilateral cricket series was back in 2012-13.
The CCTV footage revealed that the car was stolen quickly within 4-5 minutes by a group of four people.