{"id":30012,"date":"2025-07-29T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30012\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:05:10","slug":"gautam-gambhir-loses-it-at-curator-indian-coach-in-clash-with-the-oval-grounds-staff-confrontation-england-vs-india-test-series-spiteful-ben-stokes-spirit-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Gambhir loses it at curator, Indian coach in clash with The Oval grounds staff, confrontation, England vs India Test series, spiteful, Ben Stokes spirit of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian coach Gautam Gambhir has been caught up in a heated clash with The Oval ground staff just days out from the final Test of the spiteful Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>In vision shared widely online, a frustrated Gambhir can be seen gesturing at head groundsman Lee Fortis and telling him to \u201cf**k off\u201d during his verbal tirade.<\/p>\n<p>Watch England vs India Test Series LIVE &amp; EXCLUSIVE on Fox Cricket, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=cricket&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo report whatever you want, go f**k off,\u201d Gambhir can be heard telling Fortis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t tell us what we need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clash then escalated when Fortis threatened to report Gambhir to the match referee.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.foxsports.com.au\/fs\/electrode\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t tell us what to do. You\u2019re just the groundsman, stay in your capacity!\u201d Gambhir could be heard saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t swear again or I have to report you to the match referee,\u201d Fortis then replies.<\/p>\n<p>India hit back in Eng&#8217;s early draw push | 01:41<\/p>\n<p>The spat between Indian coach Gautam Gambhir and The Oval&#8217;s curator.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear what sparked the confrontation at India\u2019s optional session at The Oval on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But early reports indicate staff had questioned the presence of the Indian players and coaches in that part of the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The spat comes at a time tensions between the two sides is at boiling point after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/cricket\/how-englands-sullen-and-ungracious-antics-fuelled-brewing-ashes-storm-uk-view\/news-story\/ef203fb0aecec307b5b91bf4a6f1e8f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">England\u2019s \u201cspirit of the game\u201d was questioned in the drawn Fourth Test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stokes\u2019 men were accused of acting like \u201csore losers\u201d on day five of the Manchester Test when India refused to end an early draw \u2013 and instead allow Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar, who were unbeaten on 89 and 80 respectively, to reach triple figures.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes was left clearly fuming at the decision to bat on; instead taking his main bowlers off and deploying Harry Brook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to get a Test hundred against Harry Brook?\u201d Stokes could be heard asking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want me to do, just walk off,\u201d Jadeja had replied.<\/p>\n<p>Already this series Gambhir has come under fire for his fiery press conference after that fourth Test draw.<\/p>\n<p>Former batsman Sanjay Manjrekar even urged the head coach to \u201ctake a chill pill\u201d after he clashed with reporters over questions on skipper Shubman Gill\u2019s batting and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>England are holding a 2-1 series lead heading into the final Test at The Oval starting on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian coach Gautam Gambhir has been caught up in a heated clash with The Oval ground staff just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1724,64,63,28499,28503,12548,10537,28501,28506,28505,1209,28498,28504,28500,28502,12540,85],"class_list":["post-30012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-day-tests","tag-explosive-clash","tag-fox-cricket","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-grounds-staff","tag-head-groundsman","tag-heated-clash","tag-india","tag-indian-coach","tag-lee-fortis","tag-match-referee","tag-mcg-ampamp-scg-tests","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}