A fierce competition is expected between the players of both the teams in the Test series going to be held between India and Australia. Apart from the competition of abilities, the possibility of verbal conflict will also remain as always. But even before that, a different conflict has started, in which Team India's coach Gautam Gambhir has come to the fore. This is Gambhir's conflict with former Australian captain Ricky Ponting. Before leaving for Australia, Gambhir's sharp comment on Ponting made headlines and now Ponting's reply has also come, after which the confrontation between these two greats will be closely watched in the entire series.
The eyes of cricket fans all over the world are fixed on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Especially everyone wants to see how Team India's star batsman Virat Kohli performs because he is going through a bad phase at the moment. When former Australian captain Ponting was asked about such form of Kohli, he expressed surprise that despite scoring only 2 centuries in 5 years, Kohli remains in the top order of Team India. However, Ponting had also said that it is natural for a batsman like Kohli to get time and he can do well in Australia.
This comment of Ponting was quite popular in the Indian media and in such a situation, when Indian coach Gambhir was asked to react to this statement in the press conference before leaving for Australia, he could not stop his aggressive attitude. Gambhir immediately raised questions on Ponting as to what does he have to do with Indian cricket? Gambhir supported Virat and asked Ponting to think about the Australian team. This statement of Gambhir created a lot of stir and naturally it reached Australia also, after which a reaction was also taken from Ponting on this statement.
When a reporter asked Ponting, who was part of the expert panel of 7 Sports, the official broadcaster of the Test series, whether he would shake hands with the Indian head coach during the series, Ponting only said - if Gambhir comes his way. After this, Ponting also tried to taunt Gambhir and said that both of them have a long history and he has also coached Gambhir in IPL. By saying this, Ponting indicated that he had no interest in meeting or talking to Gambhir. When Gambhir was in Delhi Daredevils in his last season of IPL, Ponting was the coach of the franchise at that time.
