“It was very childish,” says Gambhir on Shastri’s ‘Best team in last 15 years’ comments

Dixit Bhargav | 14/12/2018
Gambhir on Shastri's 'Best team in last 15 years' comments

Gambhir on Shastri’s ‘Best team in last 15 years’ comments: Former Indian opening batsman has criticized the Indian coach.

Former India opening batsman Gautam Gambhir, who retired from all forms of cricket recently, has lashed out at India coach Ravi Shastri for his ‘immature and childish’ comments regarding the current Indian team being the best in the last 15 years.

Apparently, Shastri had made the comment during India’s tour of England earlier this year. While the team lost the series 1-4, the coach believed that the team has achieved more than other Indian teams of the past.

Speaking during an interview to CricketNext, Gambhir took a dig at Shastri to the extent that he ended up questioning his personal achievement as an Indian cricketer.

“I’m sure that people who haven’t won anything give these kinds of statements. I don’t know what Shastri has achieved in his career apart from winning the World Championship in Australia.

“I don’t think he was a part of an overseas series win. If you haven’t won anything yourself, you end up giving this kind of statement. I’m sure people wouldn’t have taken this seriously. I’m sure he must not have seen enough cricket. If he had he seen enough cricket, he wouldn’t have given that statement,” Gambhir was quoted.

The usually expressive former cricketer added that even if India would have won the series, one shouldn’t make such statements.

“It was very childish. Even if you had won 4-1, you won’t say this is the best Indian team touring abroad. You would still stay humble and say we want to take this, we want to go forward, we want to keep improving. You wouldn’t say this is the best Indian team ever overseas. This is childish.

“I’m sure people wouldn’t have taken this seriously. I don’t know about other people but I didn’t take it seriously because it was a very immature statement,” he added.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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