Ever since Gautam Gambhir became the head coach of Team India, the bad days of the Indian team have started and the atmosphere of the dressing room also seems to have changed. Sometimes there were issues of mutual differences among the players and sometimes there were reports of things not being well between the players and the coach. However, on all these things, Team India captain Rohit Sharma had said that everything is fine, but the former Indian spinner seems to be very angry with such things.
In fact, former cricketer Harbhajan Singh feels that there are big differences in the Indian dressing room. Speaking on his YouTube channel, Bhajji said that the revelations that have emerged from the Indian team in the last 6-8 months indicate that there has been a rift in the dressing room. Several news outlets, including India Today, quoted sources as saying what was going on behind the scenes during India’s tour of Australia. Reports claimed that the Indian team was divided into camps and a senior player was presenting himself as Mr. Fixit in the team who could take over the captaincy on an interim basis in the event of Rohit Sharma’s dismissal.
This news intensified after Rohit Sharma was rested from the Indian team in the last Test match played in Sydney, but on the second day of the match, the Indian captain had told that he had removed himself from the team on the basis of his performance. . The matter did not stop here. After the Indian team returned from the Australia tour, there were reports that BCCI would take strict action to discipline the Indian team and that is what happened. The board set many new rules for the players and tried to control them.
On this report, Harbhajan Singh said that some drama was going on behind the scenes. The former spinner criticized the players and the Indian team management and asked how so many reports had come out in the last two months. Bhajji said that fights happen in every house but they should stay inside the house only. He further said, solve it amongst yourselves, why is there so much drama. There are fights in every house but it should not be brought out. We have heard a lot of things in the last 6-8 months. What if Ajit Agarkar says today that these things were not done by Sarfaraz but by the coach, there is no point in blaming each other.
Bhajji compared the dressing room to the dressing room of Greg Chappell’s era and said that he has seen such internal fights before. Gautam Gambhir is new and he has to know the players and the players have to know him. This won’t work without chemistry. I’ve seen this before too. During the 2006-08 era when Greg Chappell was the coach, I saw the entire dressing room collapse. The reason for this was that the players started playing the blame game. How did the media come to know so many things?
