NEW DELHI: Crew India‘s new head coach Gautam Gambhir carries with him the hopes of the nation that’s recent from T20 World Cup glory.
The 42-year-old, a talented left-handed batsman who scored over 10,000 worldwide runs throughout three codecs, performed a key half in India’s T20 World Cup win in 2007 and ODI World Cup win in 2011.
Again as mentor, Gambhir led Kolkata Knight Riders to the IPL crown this 12 months.
Gambhir has now succeeded Rahul Dravid who stepped down after celebrating victory within the T20 World Cup — India’s first international title for the reason that 2013 Champions Trophy.
Gambhir’s tenure will formally get underway with the away collection in opposition to Sri Lanka, that has 3 T20Is and three ODIs.
Forward of the collection, Star Sports activities shared a video of Gambhir speaking concerning the significance of getting a balanced mixture of gamers within the workforce.
Flanked by former cricketers Irfan Pathan, Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Kumar Sangakkara, Gambhir discusses workforce formation forward of the Sri Lanka collection.
Gambhir says within the video, “First it’s good to determine gamers who have gotten that fearless strategy as effectively and doubtless in a format like 50 overs, it’s good to have a mix of each form of gamers. You must have gamers who can anchor the innings and alter in guidelines has additionally made an enormous distinction. That point we used to have solely on new ball, now we have got two new balls and 5 fielders inside, so the function of the part-timer has gone out of the window. You do not see sufficient reverse swing anymore, you do not see sufficient buy for finger spinners as effectively, however I at all times really feel that once we speak about this new strategy, you bought to determine gamers who can adapt to these roles, that template very simply. Some individuals simply can not adapt to that template. So why push them to play in a sure approach which does not come naturally to them. So for me I feel indentifying gamers and on the identical time getting the right combination could be very essential fairly than suppose that now we have to play with a sure template so we obtained to pick out all of the 15 with an identical mindset or with an identical template.”
The 42-year-old, a talented left-handed batsman who scored over 10,000 worldwide runs throughout three codecs, performed a key half in India’s T20 World Cup win in 2007 and ODI World Cup win in 2011.
Again as mentor, Gambhir led Kolkata Knight Riders to the IPL crown this 12 months.
Gambhir has now succeeded Rahul Dravid who stepped down after celebrating victory within the T20 World Cup — India’s first international title for the reason that 2013 Champions Trophy.
Gambhir’s tenure will formally get underway with the away collection in opposition to Sri Lanka, that has 3 T20Is and three ODIs.
Forward of the collection, Star Sports activities shared a video of Gambhir speaking concerning the significance of getting a balanced mixture of gamers within the workforce.
Flanked by former cricketers Irfan Pathan, Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Kumar Sangakkara, Gambhir discusses workforce formation forward of the Sri Lanka collection.
Gambhir says within the video, “First it’s good to determine gamers who have gotten that fearless strategy as effectively and doubtless in a format like 50 overs, it’s good to have a mix of each form of gamers. You must have gamers who can anchor the innings and alter in guidelines has additionally made an enormous distinction. That point we used to have solely on new ball, now we have got two new balls and 5 fielders inside, so the function of the part-timer has gone out of the window. You do not see sufficient reverse swing anymore, you do not see sufficient buy for finger spinners as effectively, however I at all times really feel that once we speak about this new strategy, you bought to determine gamers who can adapt to these roles, that template very simply. Some individuals simply can not adapt to that template. So why push them to play in a sure approach which does not come naturally to them. So for me I feel indentifying gamers and on the identical time getting the right combination could be very essential fairly than suppose that now we have to play with a sure template so we obtained to pick out all of the 15 with an identical mindset or with an identical template.”
India haven’t received a worldwide title within the ODI format since successful the Champions Trophy in 2013, and Gambhir would need to change that within the upcoming 12 months.
Gambhir is the one Indian — and one in every of 4 worldwide cricketers together with Don Bradman, Jacques Kallis and Mohammad Yousuf — to have scored centuries in 5 successive Check matches.
