{"id":31181,"date":"2025-07-30T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31181\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:07:10","slug":"india-cricket-coach-gautam-gambhir-clashes-with-groundsman-at-oval-ahead-of-final-test-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31181\/","title":{"rendered":"India cricket coach Gautam Gambhir clashes with groundsman at Oval ahead of final test against England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fortis is understood to have been keeping a protective eye on the playing area during India\u2019s practice, with plenty of cricket still to be played on it this season.<\/p>\n

After walking away in conversation with India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak, who appeared to take on the role of mediator, Fortis told Gambhir he may be forced to lodge a complaint against him, drawing a response of: \u201cYou can go and report to whoever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is unclear whether India have concerns over the pitch, which is expected to provide greater pace and bounce than has been seen in the previous four matches, potentially favouring England\u2019s quick bowlers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The home team\u2019s attack has struggled for penetration at times, including in India\u2019s second innings at Old Trafford, where the bowlers took just four wickets in 143 overs as the fourth test ended in a draw.<\/p>\n

The series has become increasingly heated, with the tourists refusing to accept an offer of a draw early in Manchester to allow Washington Sundar and Ravindra Jadeja to reach centuries, a decision that angered England.<\/p>\n

India captain Shubman Gill accused England of ignoring the \u201cspirit of cricket\u201d with time-wasting tactics in the third test at Lord\u2019s, where India fast bowler Mohammed Siraj was fined for the aggressive \u201csend-off\u201d he gave to Ben Duckett.<\/p>\n

England are expected to make changes after the draw in Manchester, particularly to their bowling line-up, with just three days\u2019 rest between matches.<\/p>\n

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India have suffered a major blow in losing Rishabh Pant, who sustained a fracture to his right foot in Manchester.<\/p>\n

The wicketkeeper-batter, who scored 479 runs in the series at an average of 68.42, has been replaced in the squad by Narayan Jagadeesan.<\/p>\n

The visitors also need to make a decision on pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, who has played three tests so far \u2013 the maximum team bosses said he would feature in before the series started.<\/p>\n

Gambhir has said all of his quicks are fit for the finale.<\/p>\n

\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fortis is understood to have been keeping a protective eye on the playing area during India\u2019s practice, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[1914,22666,29255,1929,64,63,29251,3181,740,15454,1208,29256,2649,29250,29249,29220,29253,4895,29259,1209,29254,10320,1787,29252,85,29257,231,13653,19004,245,29258,3605],"class_list":["post-31181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-against","tag-ahead","tag-angry","tag-at","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-clashes","tag-coach","tag-cricket","tag-during","tag-england","tag-exchange","tag-final","tag-gambhir","tag-gautam","tag-groundsman","tag-head","tag-incident","tag-increasingly","tag-india","tag-involved","tag-latest","tag-of","tag-oval","tag-sports","tag-surreys","tag-test","tag-tetchy","tag-this","tag-tour","tag-weeks","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31181","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=31181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}