Amid the continued feud between India head coach Gautam Gambhir and former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting, ex-cricketer Brad Haddin has revealed the rationale behind the confrontation between the two. It all kicked off after Gambhir replied to Ponting over his suggestions on star India batter Virat Kohli’s concerning kind ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Gambhir requested him to deal with Australian cricket as a substitute, sooner than the legendary batter fired a sharp retort, calling the India coach a prickly character.
Gambhir carried out beneath Ponting at Delhi Capitals in 2018, which turned out to be his final season throughout the Indian Premier League (IPL) as a participant. He solely carried out half of the video video games that season, with Shreyas Iyer leadng the aspect for the remaining matches.
However, Haddin teased to raise the lid on the backstory between the two, which he reveal throughout the coming days.
“Gambhir is a character that would use this as an us versus them mentality. And you expect your coach to stick up for the players. His reaction was prickly there, and you don’t need your coach to get caught up in that sort of scenario unless his tactics is to build an us versus them. I know what the backstory. I’ll tell you; just wait till later of the week. There was a little elbow, suspensions and fines,” Haddin acknowledged on LiSTNR Sport Podcast.
Haddin moreover in distinction Gambhir to Australian rugby coach Wayne Bennett, who sometimes tries to take the stress away from his group by taking the center stage.
“It’s out of the Wayne Bennett style of coaching. So we’re not really talking now about Rohit Sharma or [Virat] Kohli. We’re talking about Gambhir and Ricky [Ponting]. With Gambhir, he has bitten back, taken the pressure away from his team. It’s all about him now; it’s about how prickly he is. And now he might be able to go and prepare his team. You’d like to believe that he has a very clear plan on how they want to ready,” he recognized.
While he did agree that Gambhir could possibly be a “prickly character” at events, Haddin questioned if the latter is doing this on purpose, significantly alongside together with his group beneath precise stress after shedding the gathering to New Zealand.
“We know he’s a prickly character and can wind himself up. Is he doing this now to take it away from his teammates? I don’t know. Only time will tell. If it’s an emotional reaction, then there’s a problem. But if he’s doing it to deflect things away and take it [attention] away from his team, that’s a different thing,” he added.
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