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Gautam Gambhir takes a jibe on Ravi Shastri for “best Indian team overseas in 15 years” comment

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Gautam Gambhir takes a jibe on Indian cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri

Gautam Gambhir, former Indian cricket team batsman who recently claimed his retirement from all formats of cricket has taken a jibe on present Indian cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri, following his comments about the current team being the best Indian team overseas in the last 15 years.

Shastri praised the team during India’s tour of England earlier this year by saying, “the endeavour of this team is to travel well, compete and win. If you look at the last three years, we have won nine matches overseas and three series. I can’t see any other Indian team in the last 15-20 years that has had the same run in such a short time, and you have had some great players playing in those series.”

The two time ICC World Cup winner for the country questioned Shastri’s career achievements and also remarked his comments as childish and immature.

Gambhir said, “I’m sure that people who haven’t won anything give these kinds of statements. I don’t know what Shastri has achieved in his career apart from winning the World Championship in Australia. I don’t think he was a part of an overseas series win. If you haven’t won anything yourself, you end up giving this kind of statement. I’m sure people wouldn’t have taken this seriously. I’m sure he must not have seen enough cricket. If he had he seen enough cricket, he wouldn’t have given that statement.”

“It was very childish. Even if you had won 4-1, you won’t say this is the best Indian team touring abroad. You would still stay humble and say we want to take this, we want to go forward, we want to keep improving. You wouldn’t say this is the best Indian team ever overseas. This is childish. I’m sure people wouldn’t have taken this seriously. I don’t know about other people but I didn’t take it seriously because it was a very immature statement,” he added.

Shastri comments had also not gone down well with former India captains Sunil Gavaskar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid along with a vast majority of fans as they criticized the Indian coach for his comments.

 

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