Former India batter Suresh Raina mentioned that the blame of India’s failures within the latest South Africa collection can’t be pinned on solely head coach Gautam Gambhir and his assist workers, including that the gamers also needs to take duty.
“Gauti bhaiya (Gautam Gambhir) has labored actually exhausting and he’s not in any respect at fault. The gamers must work actually exhausting and play effectively. Beneath him we now have been doing nice within the white-ball format the place we simply gained the ICC Champions Trophy and Asia Cup in Dubai earlier this 12 months. The gamers have to attain, the coach can solely information, advise and provides assist to the gamers” Raina advised ‘PTI Movies’.
“In the event that they (the gamers) are dealing with any points, they have to be speaking to the coach that that is the difficulty. If the gamers do effectively then the coach can be additionally applauded. But when the staff will not be doing effectively, it shouldn’t be that the coach ought to be sacked from his publish. I’ve performed with Gautam bhaiya, he loves Indian cricket staff, he loves cricket, I’ve performed and gained the World Cup with him. So, he has accomplished rather well for the nation and it’s the gamers’ duty to do effectively,” he added.
India are at the moment in a world of hassle, having already misplaced 2 wickets of their chase of 549 runs within the second Take a look at at Guwahati. They’re already 0-1 down within the collection after dropping the primary Take a look at match in Kolkata a few weeks in the past.
The previous CSK batter additionally mentioned that he was trying ahead to the ODI collection between the 2 sides beginning November 30 the place senior-most batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma can be in motion.
“Ro-Ko (Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli) can be again, sure. They did effectively in Australia and can certainly strengthen the ODI squad towards South Africa. Each of them are nice ambassadors for world and Indian Cricket. Once they’ll be within the facet then the ambiance can be totally different, Rishabh Pant can be again after some time so will probably be enjoyable to look at the ODI collection,” he mentioned.