Gautam Gambhir’s Indian dressing room fragmented! Journalist makes shocking 'Perth Test' revelation

It is confirmed that there is a divide and discord in the Indian cricket team. There is no unity; none are on the same page or unison goal, at least in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. There is a lot of speculation about splits and uncertainty in the Indian dressing room.

But now a journalist has publicly made some shocking revelations about what has been happening in the Indian dressing room so far on the Australia tour. Bharat Sundaresan, a well-known broadcaster commentating in the ongoing BGT 2024-25, dropped a bombshell on Team India.

Indian cricket team facing growing divide amid Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25

Bharat Sundaresan claimed that the Indian cricket team is facing deepening cracks within, suggesting a growing divide among the players. He added that tensions have been simmering even before the ongoing Australia tour began. Bharat noted that the India dressing room was far from united.

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Speaking on Channel 7, Bharat Sundaresan said at the SCG during the ongoing New Year’s Test: “I wouldn't call it a fractured dressing room. It is fragmented. And the reason for that is you suddenly have so many different generations of players all together. And they needed leaders who pull them together and, you know, make them one unit.”

In a shocking revelation, the broadcaster further claimed that the Indian team didn’t celebrate their historic 295-run win over Australia in the first Test at the Optus Stadium in Perth as a team. Instead, the Indian players went their separate ways, highlighting how things were boiling up in the dressing room.

India didn't celebrate the Perth Test win as a team!!

Sundaresan also revealed that Team India’s one senior staff member even offered to pay for drinks to bring everyone together and urged them to stick together and celebrate the win as a team, but the divide between different player generations didn’t let that happen and the differences only grew.

The broadcaster added, “The first thing I heard was after the Perth win, such a significant win in the history of Indian cricket, the fact that they didn't celebrate that as a team and they just went their own ways, didn't tell me that it was a broken dressing room.

"But it was a dressing room where there were different cliques there, generationally and otherwise, who were just doing their own things. And this, I was told that this is despite one of the senior support staff members saying, ‘Here, I'll put my credit card down; let's all order some drinks; just stick together’. But that wasn't to be.”

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The most shocking moment came after a devastating loss in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, where a single bad session caused India to lose a hard-fought Test match by 184 runs against Australia. This loss exposed the simmering uncertainty that had been lingering within the team from the start of the ongoing BGT 2024-25, bringing them to the public.

Bharat Sundaresan reveals the Indian team’s struggle with the generational divide

As the ongoing five-match Test series progressed, India’s issues became more evident, with some players reportedly forming cliques, both based on generation and other factors. The Indian team’s inability to unite and bond led to a fragmented dressing room and the results are in front of everyone in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.

Sundaresan signed off by saying, “After the loss in Melbourne, that simmering uncertainty came to the surface and became public."

"The Indian Express article for me was just a trigger of the simmering uncertainty..."@beastieboy07 on all the reports coming out of the Indian camp over the last couple of days, and what he's heard... #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/SpX02eLT5q

— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 2, 2025