A new era has started in Indian cricket with Gautam Gambhir taking over the charge of the new head coach of team India and his first assignment is the Sri Lanka tour in which India will play 3 T20Is and the same number of ODIs.
The first T20I between India and Sri Lanka will be played tomorrow (27 July) and majority of the former Indian cricketers are quite positive about Gautam Gambhir working as the head coach. Recently the former head coach Ravi Shastri shed his opinion on this matter.
During a show, while talking about Gambhir, Ravi Shastri said, “He’s contemporary, he just had a great season in the IPL. I think he’s the right age where he’s young, he’ll come with fresh ideas. He knows most of the players, especially in the white-ball format, having been part of teams in the IPL. So I think it’s refreshing.”
He further added, “And we know with Gautam, he’s a no-nonsense guy. He’ll have his ideas as well. And the good thing for him is he’s got a mature team. He’s got a settled team, a mature team. I think even though you might think you’re mature, you might benefit from some fresh ideas. So I think it’ll be interesting times. Obviously, player management becomes the key as a coach. So it’ll be interesting to see how he goes. I think he’s got the tools, he’s got the goods for the job and he’s got the experience.”
Shastri also has some suggestions for Gambhir, the former said, “It’s a question of just understanding his players as quickly as possible. What their strengths are, what kind of human beings they are and what kind of temperaments do they have? What are their personalities? A lot goes behind the scenes to understand a human being.”
He added, “I think that will be his most important task, which I think again should not be a problem because he’s contemporary. He’s seen these guys from the outside, he’s dealt with a lot of guys who might have played with KKR as well and for Lucknow (Super Giants) when he was there.”
All the best Gautam Gambhir!
