The veteran India Nationwide Cricket Staff bowling all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin has highlighted a key distinction between the present head coach, Gautam Gambhir, and former head coach, Rahul Dravid.
World Cup-winner Gautam Gambhir joined the Indian staff as head coach after the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024 when Rahul Dravid left the function.
Dravid left large sneakers to fill, as in his remaining task he made positive India clinched the T20 World Cup title and ended their ICC trophy drought. Apart from that, beneath Rahul Dravid, India continued their domination in world cricket and performed the ultimate of the ICC World Cup 2023 and ICC World Take a look at Championship 2023 and received the Asia Cup 2023 as effectively.
Gautam Gambhir was finalized for the top coach function regardless of having no main teaching expertise, as he had solely served as a mentor within the Indian Premier League. The BCCI, nonetheless, confirmed religion in him as they needed an Indian to take over from Rahul Dravid.
To date, Gautam Gambhir has been respectable in his function with the facet. He commenced his stint with a 3-0 clear sweep over Sri Lanka in a T20I sequence however misplaced his subsequent ODI task in opposition to the Lankan Lions by 0-2.
Nonetheless, after rapidly forgetting the setback, Gautam Gambhir started his tenure as red-ball head coach within the dwelling Take a look at sequence in opposition to Bangladesh and India dominantly received the primary match.
The upcoming months shall be very essential for Gautam Gambhir and his staff as it can determine whether or not or not India will play the ultimate of the ICC World Take a look at Championship for the third consecutive time.
Rahul Dravid needed issues so as. With Gautam Gambhir, he does not count on all that – Ravichandran Ashwin
After the primary Take a look at in opposition to Bangladesh, Ravichandran Ashwin revealed the important thing distinction between Gautam Gambhir and Dravid. He said that Dravid was a strict coach who needed issues so as and however, Gambhir is nothing like that.
Ravichandran Ashwin added that Gautam Gambhir stays fairly relaxed and labeled him as a ‘relaxed rancho’. Notably, Ashwin has beforehand shared the dressing room with Gambhir throughout the latter’s enjoying days.
“I feel he’s very relaxed. I need to name him ‘relaxed rancho’. There is no stress in any respect. Within the morning, there shall be a staff huddle. He’s very relaxed about that as effectively. He shall be like, ‘are you coming, please come’. It is like that.,” Ashwin mentioned on his YouTube channel.
“With Rahul bhai, as quickly as we come, he needed issues so as: even a bottle ought to be stored at a selected place at a selected time. He’s very regimented. He needed issues so as,” he added.
“With Gambhir, he does not count on all that. He has a relaxed order. He shall be a individuals’s man. He’ll seize everyone’s coronary heart. I feel he shall be beloved by the boys,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, beneath Gambhir, India will play a three-match Take a look at sequence in opposition to New Zealand after the conclusion of the Bangladesh sequence.
