Why Test cricket has shockingly imploded \u2026 and everyone is blaming one \u2018chaotic\u2019 man<\/a><\/p>\nBut Gavaskar defended Gambhir, saying the players had to take responsibility. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a coach,\u201d Gavaskar said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe coach can prepare a team. But it\u2019s out there in the middle that the players have to deliver.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re not prepared to give him credit for the Champions Trophy and the Asia Cup win, then please tell me why you want to blame him for the team out there on that 22-yard strip not doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n
India\u2019s batting flopped in the series with their first innings total of 201 in Guwahati their best against an inspired South Africa spin attack led by Simon Harmer.<\/p>\n
India’s Jasprit Bumrah, right, and India’s Mohammed Siraj walk off the field.Source: AP<\/p>\n
The hosts lost the opening Test inside three days in Kolkata and in the second match mustered only 140, chasing a mammoth 549 target on day five.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was an aura around the Indian team when playing in India. You can see it disappearing in the distance,\u201d veteran commentator Harsha Bhogle wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Former India wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik said: \u201cTeams used to be scared of coming to India to play Test cricket. Now they must be licking their lips.<\/p>\n
\u201cA second whitewash in a span of 12 months. These are tough times for India in Test cricket, and tough decisions might have to be taken.\u201d India last month registered a home 2-0 series sweep against a depleted West Indies after drawing 2-2 in England in captain Shubman Gill\u2019s first series in charge after the retirements of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Batting great Sunil Gavaskar has called for a \u201cpost-mortem\u201d into India Test cricket after their aura of home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[6074,19904,1724,64,63,689,155027,45898,740,1950,8468,1208,2057,10537,24924,5330,101482,176677,147861,1209,8469,176678,40425,44873,2132,1736,3583,677,22297,24923,176679,21530,45258,17065,47911,58868,44219,10536,165459,32650,1183,18780,12540,85,39418,2131],"class_list":["post-311855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-africa","tag-anil-kumble","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-banga","tag-batting-order","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-dinesh-karthik","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-harsha-bhogle","tag-head-coach","tag-home-ground","tag-home-invincibility","tag-incredible-diving-catch","tag-india","tag-indian-cricket","tag-indian-team","tag-kolkata","tag-marco-jansen","tag-mohammed-siraj","tag-new-zealand","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-practice-session","tag-rahul-dravid","tag-rare-ally","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-sachin-tendulkar","tag-series-loss","tag-series-sweep","tag-series-whitewash","tag-shubman-gill","tag-simon-harmer","tag-sourav-ganguly","tag-south-africa","tag-southern-africa","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports","tag-sunil-gavaskar","tag-virat-kohli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311855","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=311855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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