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Gautam Gambhir has travel nether disapproval for Team India's caller struggles. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Former India batter Suresh Raina has thrown his enactment down caput manager Gautam Gambhir astatine a clip erstwhile the nationalist team’s red-ball signifier astatine location has travel nether scrutiny. India, inactive recovering from the daze of being swept by New Zealand past year, person slipped again successful the ongoing two-match bid against South Africa aft losing the opening Test.
The unit astir the enactment unit has grown, but Raina made it wide the blame, successful his view, lies elsewhere.
India ODI squad: Bizarre enactment calls, nary mentation and nary logic
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Speaking to PTI connected the sidelines of an lawsuit successful New Delhi, Raina said the disapproval directed astatine Gambhir was misplaced. “Gauti (Gambhir) bhaiya has worked truly hard and helium is not astatine each astatine fault. The players person to enactment truly hard and play well. Under him we person been doing large successful the white-ball format wherever we conscionable won the ICC Champions Trophy and Asia Cup successful Dubai earlier this year,” helium said. Raina stressed that results connected the tract indispensable beryllium owned by the players, not the coach. “The players person to score, the manager tin lone guide, counsel and springiness enactment to the players,” helium added, urging a much balanced appraisal of the team’s struggles. Questions person besides been raised astir whether Gambhir’s presumption is nether menace if India’s location Test troubles continue. Raina rejected the idea, saying connection and accountability wrong the radical are much important.
“If they (the players) are facing immoderate issues, they indispensable beryllium communicating to the manager that this is the issue. If the players bash good past the manager volition beryllium besides applauded. But if the squad is not doing well, it should not beryllium that the manager should beryllium sacked from his post,” helium said. Reflecting connected his ain clip successful the dressing room, Raina underlined Gambhir’s committedness to Indian cricket. “I person played with Gautam bhaiya, helium loves Indian cricket team, helium loves cricket, I person played and won the World Cup with him.
So, helium has done truly good for the state and it is the players’ work to bash well,” helium said.
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He besides responded to disapproval of India’s caller enactment decisions, saying performances successful the home circuit should proceed to beryllium the foundation. “They should play home cricket regularly and bash good there, if they bash good that volition automatically bespeak successful their performances astatine the planetary level,” Raina said. With the ODI bid against South Africa starting November 30, Raina expects a assistance with the instrumentality of elder names. “Ro-Ko (Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli) volition beryllium back, yes. They did good successful Australia and volition surely fortify the ODI squad against South Africa,” helium said.
