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Former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir has heaped reward on the nation’s coaches and has pitched for hiring Indian coaches for Indian cricket staff. Gambhir stated Indian coaches have proved themselves prior to now and cited the instance of Lal Chand Rajput, below whom India gained the inaugural ICC T20I World Cup held in 2007. Gambhir was crucial of international coaches and acknowledged that they will spoil Indian cricket.
“Yes, we don’t want and need foreign coaches for our team, they can spoil your cricket and team, what’s wrong with Indian coaches? What have they done wrong? We won the 2007 T20 World Cup under the coaching of Lal Chand Rajput,” he stated.
The former India opener additionally talked about India’s victory within the tri-series involving Australia and Sri Lanka during which the staff was additionally below Rajput as coach. “We also won the CB series first time in Australia with the same coach but what we remember is the 2011 World Cup victory and coach Garry Kirsten,” talked about Gambhir.
He questioned the teaching stints of the earlier international coaches. “What special work was done by Duncan Fletcher and Johnn Wright? We have to show trust in our local players and coaches,” he stated.
Gambhir, who performed a pivotal function in 2007 and 2011 World cup victories for India, additionally applauded and remembered the contribution of bowlers. “Why should we always remember players who scored 97 and 91 in the World cup final. Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh played crucial roles in the Indian victory and their effort was equal to that of batsmen, so we have to remember them too,” he stated.
The southpaw was seen within the function of a mentor for the Lucknow Super Giant within the final IPL season.
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