Gautam Gambhir-led coaching staff has been facing lots of criticism after India's failure to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia. They lost the five-match Test series in Australia 3-1. Australia has beaten India in a Test series for the first time in 10 years and India's chances to make a hat-trick of playing in the World Test Championship Final. Delhi Capitals co-owner Parth Jindal made a big remark on the Indian coaching staff.
Parth Jindal on Indian coaching staff
Parth Jindal, who is the co-owner of DC, a franchise Gautam Gambhir once represented said that India's team selection, batting display and off-field drama were not impressive and he also suggested BCCI to have different coaching staff for red-ball and white-ball formats.
No doubt that Australia has been the better team throughout this series - the Indian team selection, the batting display and the off the field drama has definitely not been up to the mark. Time for the selectors, the Board and the think tank to realise that red ball cricket and white ball cricket and its coaching staff needs to be separated. The game has evolved and most youngsters are prioritising white ball and hence important to identify and hone red ball players and give them a platform to perform. Congratulations to South Africa and mostly Australia for a deserving place in the WTC finals.
India has lost back-to-back Test series and an ODI series in Sri Lanka, marking a difficult start to the Gambhir era. Additionally, for the first time in the tournament's history, India did not make it to the World Test Championship Final.
The future of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in Test cricket has also been hotly debated following their batting mishaps in Australia. Kohli scored 194 runs at an average of 23.75 over five Tests, whereas Rohit only managed 31 runs in three Tests before dropping himself for the fifth Test. Kohli only scored 85 runs in the final four Test matches of the series, though, following the century in Perth.