“Rohit Sharma Addressed The Media…”: Sunil Gavaskar Gives Fresh Twist To ‘Rift’ Rumors | cricket news

On the primary day of the New Year, a number of stories 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 Test on the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Head coach Gautam Gambhir is believed to have stated, “so much has occurred (I’ve had sufficient) in his dressing room speech, with the dressing room surroundings being ‘removed from splendid’. While reacting to such stories, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar stated that every one these 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 misplaced a match.

“Every time the Indian team has not done well, these things about rifts and all that (come up). It is a common story. It’s almost as if we people feel that the Indian team cannot lose. So if they lose, there has to be some reason other than cricketing,” Gavaskar informed. India Today,

“I don’t think any of the players really give a thought to what has been written. They just want to focus on how to get better than what they were in the previous Test,” he added.

Amid hypothesis of unrest within the dressing room following an enormous loss within the Boxing Day Test, Gambhir additionally clarified in a presser that it had been “just reports, not truth”.

NDTV, by means of its sources, has understood that Rohit is prone to be “rested” for the fifth Test vs Australia. Another 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 workforce captain.

Trying to search out out the explanation behind it, Gavaskar stated: “The captain addressed the media just two days ago, so maybe he felt that he didn’t need to address the media again and the coach had not addressed the media at all. So maybe the coach had to come and say that nothing of that sort had happened, which again should tell you a thing or two about those reports.”