After winning the T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian cricket team and its star players, who were at their peak, have suddenly started to look like laggards. Team India's strong performance continues in the T20 format, but many players including the captain of the World Cup-winning team, Rohit Sharma, are also playing in the ODI and Test team and the performance of Team India has started declining continuously in both these formats. The defeat in the Test series at home against New Zealand has shocked everyone and now amid this shocking performance, a sensational report has come. This report is about the turmoil going on inside Team India, in which it has been claimed that there has been a rift between captain Rohit Sharma and coach Gautam Gambhir and there has been an argument between the two about running the team.
This sensational claim has been made in a news channel report. This report has come two days before the third Test match between India and New Zealand starting on November 1 in Mumbai. It has been claimed in this report that there have been differences between Rohit and Gambhir regarding decision-making in the team and the performance of the players. Not only this, it has also been claimed that there have been heated arguments between the two on some occasions. Gambhir was made the new head coach of Team India in July.
The report has claimed, citing Team India sources, that the major reason for this dispute between Rohit and Gambhir is many decisions. According to this, Gautam Gambhir is making many decisions that captain Rohit Sharma does not like and there has been a lot of debate between the two about this. The real root of the dispute between the two is that both the veterans want to run the team according to their own. It is being told in the report that since Gautam Gambhir became the coach, Rohit Sharma is not getting along because Gambhir is not ready to back down from his decisions. It has been told that Rohit is not able to make decisions according to his wishes.
There is a debate going on about the performance of Team India. Especially the performance of the ODI and Test teams is under question because Rohit is the captain in both these formats and apart from him some senior players are also in the team. The team had to face defeat in the ODI series against Sri Lanka and now New Zealand has defeated them in the Test. It is said that coach Gambhir is not happy with the performance of some senior players because they are continuously failing. Gambhir wants the senior players to perform well or else they should be out of the team. He also believes that the team is performing well in T20 but not in ODI and Test and this is raising questions on Gambhir.
Not only this, the report also states that after the controversy surfaced, many senior players have also taken Rohit's side. In this way, the team is now divided into 3 factions, in which there are some senior players including Rohit Sharma, while some players are standing with coach Gambhir. Apart from these, there is a small part of those players who are not a part of any faction. Now how true all these claims are, it will be known in the coming time. However, even before this, there have been fights between coach and captain in Indian cricket.