Ind vs eng 1st test: The new Test captain Shubman Gill-led Indian team’s World Test Championship in the 2025-27 cycle has been very disappointing. Despite giving England a huge target of 371 runs, the team could not save the Leeds Test. After which questions are being raised about the bowling and fielding of the Indian team. However, head coach Gautam Gambhir is not considering bad fielding or bowling as the reason for defeat. He believes that India scored less runs in the first innings.
England took a 1-0 lead in the five-match series by defeating India by 5 wickets in the Leeds Test. After this defeat, Head Coach Gambhir said in the press conference to the team’s poor fielding and leaving several catches, “The world’s best fielders also leave the catch. Nobody leaves a deliberate catches. But yes, it is disappointing with the batting perspective.” He said, “When we had a chance, if we had scored around 600 in the first innings, we would have been in a situation where we could have dominated, but still, such things happen. Hopefully we can learn in the second Test match, but the good thing is that in 4-5 days we had such opportunities where we could dominate this Test.”
Let us know that on the first day of the Leeds Test, India batted well in the first innings, but the India team lost the last 7 wickets within just 41 runs, while the players left many catches during the fielding. These mistakes of the team later got heavy to the team. Before the head coach, batting coach Sitanshu Kotak also expressed disappointment about losing 7 wickets within 41 runs.
