‘Rohit Sharma told media…’: Sunil Gavaskar adds new twist to ‘cleaving rift’ rumors

On the first day of the new year, several reports emerged that there were rifts in the Indian dressing room. It happened soon after India lost to Australia by 184 runs in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Head coach Gautam Gambhir is said to have said this.a lot happened In his dressing room speech, he said the dressing room environment was “far from ideal” (enough is enough). Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar while reacting to these reports said that all these articles were cooked up by the media to attract the attention of fans and users. He stood by his opinion by saying that such stories emerge only after India loses the match.

“Every time the Indian team doesn’t do well, rifts and other things are talked about. It’s a common story. It’s as if we, the people, think that the Indian team can’t afford to lose. So if they If we lose, then it becomes a problem.”I think there are reasons other than cricket,” Gavaskar said. india today.

“I don’t think any of the players are really thinking about what is written. They just want to focus on how to be even better than how they did in the last test,” he added.

Amid speculation that there was unrest in the dressing room following the heavy defeat in the Boxing Day Test, Gambhir clarified to reporters that this was “just a report and not the truth”. .

NDTV understands through sources that Rohit is likely to be “rested” for the fifth match against Australia. Another point that casts doubt on Rohit’s inclusion in this match is that Gambhir came to the press conference on the eve of the match. This event is usually attended by the team captain.

Trying to find out the reason behind it, Gavaskar said, “The captain had addressed the media only two days ago, so maybe he didn’t feel the need to address the media again and the coach Maybe the coach should have come and said nothing like that happened, but that would also tell us something about that report.”