Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali has gone down closely on India’s Head coach Gautam Gambhir. Basit Ali has additionally slammed India’s aggressive batting strategy in Checks that finally led to their downfall within the just lately concluded Check sequence towards New Zealand. Basit Ali was not happy with this type of strategy in Check cricket.
The previous Pakistan batter blasted India’s batting coach for not with the ability to differentiate between Check cricket and limited-overs cricket. He additionally made a daring declare that Rahul Dravid has a greater thoughts compared to Gautam Gambhir by way of four-day cricket.
Indian batters tried to take an aggressive route on a number of events towards New Zealand however weren’t profitable. Whereas this strategy was profitable towards Bangladesh, New Zealand had higher plans to counter such conditions and trumped India.
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Basit Ali slams India’s batting coach
Whereas talking in a video on his YouTube channel, Basit Ali slammed India’s batting coach for not with the ability to present readability in Check cricket. He requested the group to play the match session by session as an alternative of going onerous at each ball.
“India ka batting coach hai kaun, jo yeh nahi bata pa raha ki Check cricket session to session hoti hai? Bas har over 12 run bana lo, 10 run bana lo. Yeh koi cricket hai yaar! (Who’s India’s batting coach, not in a position to advise the batsmen that you simply strategy Checks session by session? Attempting to attain 10-12 runs each over isn’t cricket),” Basit Ali mentioned.
India’s teaching workers would not encompass a batting coach. Gautam Gambhir is the group’s head coach whereas Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate are the assistant coaches of the group. Morne Morkel and T Dilip are the bowling coach and fielding coach respectively.
Solely a set batsman will be profitable on such tracks – Basit Ali
The previous Pakistan cricketer additionally said {that a} set batter turns into essential on such sorts of pitches on which there’s loads of assist for the spinners. He slammed the Indian batters for throwing their wicket away after being set.
“Is there nobody to inform gamers like (Yashasvi) Jaiswal and (Shubman) Gill that if you attain 30-35, then do not get out taking part in unfastened pictures, attempt to play out the session? As a result of solely a set batsman will be profitable (on such tracks), at the moment he’s your Bradman,” mentioned Basit Ali.
“Nevertheless it appears they wait and suppose that there’s nonetheless Virat Kohli to return, Rishabh Pant too, additionally KL Rahul and Sarfaraz (Khan); however on these tracks, the one who is about is the large participant,” Basit Ali added.
“Rahul Dravid has a greater thoughts in comparison with Gautam Gambhir” – Basit Ali
The cricket knowledgeable even claimed that Rahul Dravid has a greater thoughts compared to Gautam Gambhir in terms of red-ball cricket. Ali reckons that getting ready rank-turners helped New Zealand extra as their spinners ripped aside India.
“Jaiswal scored 200 towards England. These had been higher pitches. (Rahul) Dravid has a greater thoughts (as a coach) in comparison with Gautam Gambhir. Dravid used to advise for four-day pitches so {that a} Check match goes at the least till the fourth day. Let it flip from the third, fourth day, fifth day,” Basit Ali mentioned.
“However you guys are asking for wickets (that flip) from the primary day, the place somebody who isn’t an everyday spinner will get flip even when he bowls straight,” he added.
India below strain forward of BGT 2024-25
Gautam Gambhir was appointed India’s head coach after Rahul Dravid’s tenure ended on the finish of the T20 World Cup 2024, the place India clinched the title. However Gautam Gambhir’s tenure has began on a troublesome notice as India has suffered two clean-sweeps in two completely different codecs already.
After an embarrassing 0-3 defeat to New Zealand, India is below large strain forward of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. The Males in Blue have an enormous activity in hand to win 4 Checks to verify their qualification for the WTC remaining.
If India is unable to win 4 matches, they must depend on the opposite outcomes to go their manner. The primary Check of the five-match Check sequence will start in Perth on November 22.
