“We Don't Want And Need Foreign Coaches For Our Team, They Just Can Spoil Your Cricket And Team” – Gautam Gambhir

Former India National Cricket Team opening batsman Gautam Gambhir has said that Team India don’t need to acquire foreign coaches as they can spoil Indian cricket.

The 41-year-old Gautam Gambhir, who played a key role in India’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2007 and ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2011 victories, played under several different coaches during his successful career.

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Recently, Gambhir lavished praise on the Indian coaches and backed them to take over certain roles and responsibilities in the India National Cricket Team.

The 41-year-old stated that Indian coaches have proved themselves several times in the past and cited the example of coach Lalchand Rajput, under whom the India National Cricket Team managed to win the inaugural edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2007. He also mentioned that the Men In Blue won a Commonwealth Bank series under Lalchand Rajput.

“Yes, we don’t want and need foreign coaches for our team, they just 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 said as quoted by ANI.

“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 Gary Kirsten,” mentioned Gambhir.

What special work was done by Duncan Fletcher and John Wright? – Gautam Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir further questioned the contribution of the previous foreign coaches – Duncan Fletcher and John Wright – to Indian cricket.

“What special work was done by Duncan Fletcher and John Wright? We have to show trust in our local players and coaches,” he said.

Former India opener further said that the bowlers should be given equal credit as batters for India’s victories in the major tournaments.

“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 said.

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