“Rohit Sharma Addressed The Media…”: Sunil Gavaskar Offers Recent Twist To ‘Rift’ Rumours

On the primary day of the New 12 months, a number of reviews emerged that claimed there are rifts within the Indian dressing room. It occurred proper after India’s 184-run defeat to Australia within the Boxing Day Check on the Melbourne Cricket Floor. Head coach Gautam Gambhir is believed to have mentioned, “Bahut ho gaya (I’ve had sufficient) in his dressing room speech, with the dressing room surroundings being ‘removed from splendid’. Whereas reacting to such reviews, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar mentioned that these all tales are cooked by media to maintain the followers and their customers engaged. He backed his opinion by saying that such tales emerge solely after India lose a match.

“Each time the Indian group has not accomplished effectively, these items about rifts and all that (come up). It’s a widespread story. It is nearly as if we individuals really feel that the Indian group can not lose. So in the event that they lose, there needs to be some motive apart from cricketing,” Gavaskar advised India Immediately.

“I do not assume any of the gamers actually give a thought to what has been written. They simply wish to concentrate on the right way to get higher than what they had been within the earlier Check,” he added.

Amid hypothesis of unrest within the dressing room following an enormous loss within the Boxing Day Check, Gambhir additionally clarified in a presser that it had been “simply reviews, not fact”.

NDTV, via its sources, has understood that Rohit is prone to be “rested” for the fifth Check vs Australia. One other level that has put doubts over Rohit’s choice for the sport that Gambhir got here for the press convention on the eve of the sport. The occasion is normally attended by the group captain.

Looking for out the rationale behind it, Gavaskar mentioned: “The captain addressed the media simply two days in the past, so possibly he felt that he did not want to handle the media once more and the coach had not addressed the media in any respect. So possibly the coach needed to come and say that nothing of that kind had occurred, which once more ought to let you know a factor or two about these reviews.”