Gambhir blasts IPL team owner for criticism over Tests loss

NEW DELHI: Indian men's cricket squad caput manager Gautam Gambhir connected Saturday utilized the post-match property league aft the 3rd ODI triumph against South Africa to respond to the disapproval that followed India’s 2-0 Test bid defeat. Gambhir said the absorption to the Test losses ignored cardinal details. He said: "There were truthful galore things said and written aft we mislaid the Test bid against South Africa, but cipher wrote oregon spoke astir the information that successful the archetypal Test we played without our skipper (Shubman Gill, who was retired aft playng 3 balls successful the archetypal innings owed to cervix injury) and we mislaid the lucifer by conscionable 30 runs."Gambhir besides responded to comments made by Delhi Capitals co-owner Parth Jindal, who had called for divided coaching successful Indian cricket aft the Test bid defeat.

Gambhir said: "A batch of radical person been saying a batch of things, immoderate going retired of their domain, similar 1 IPL proprietor who suggested divided coaching." He added: "Everyone should stay successful their domain. If I don't interfere successful other's work, past they don't person the close to interfere successful excavation wok".Jindal had criticised India’s Test show aft the 2-0 nonaccomplishment against South Africa. He posted connected X: "Not adjacent close, what a implicit thrashing astatine home! Don’t retrieve seeing our trial broadside being truthful anemic astatine home!!! This is what happens erstwhile reddish shot specialists are not picked." He besides wrote: "This squad is obscurity adjacent reflective of the heavy spot we person successful the reddish shot format. Time for India to determination to a specializer red-ball manager for Test cricket.

"India defeated South Africa successful the 3rd ODI and sealed the ODI bid 2-1.