Going back in memory, it was during 2005 Greg chappel created havoc in Indian cricket asking BCCI to sack Ganguly, created divide pitting Dravid against Gangly.He had a merit in asking Gangly to step down from captaincy since gangly was out of from and did not take his fitness seriously. While his emphasis on introducing young blood had merit, his method of man management was horrible. He would ask sehwag to work on fitness when sehwag was naturally gifted. He would ask sachin to bat at number 4 when sachins preference was always to open. He created "my way or highway" culture , created a terrible dressing room environment. It led to a disastrous 2007 World Cup . His notable contributions were inclusion of suresh Raina and mentoring Dhoni to an extent. India as nation and country historically has a sporting culture where the "super star" culture would always exist. He tried to do it the Australian way.
Cut to 2024, Gambhir assumes captaincy after India won the t20 World Cup. Gambhir as a player would always crib about "one man ship/star culture" overshawoding other equal contributions like yuvraj(his grudge against dhoni walking with the laurels) , him/yuvraj not getting due credit. When entire experts were praying kohli for his 50th ton, he said "Its no big deal to chase mile stones, the focus should be on team winning etc". Football too has super star culture like messi/ronaldo. Some how Gambhir is dead against it and has an agenda of destroying. The focus of coach should be to yield maximum results not come with a biased agenda. He too similar to greg chappel is encouraging young talent like nitish Kumar reddy/dhruv jurrel but has terrible man management skills. Dressing room atomposher is terrible. How on earth kohli/rohit who did great in 2023 ODI World Cup final, 2024 t20 World Cup final suddenly lost form? He is creating "my way or highway"/insecure dressing room. He had experience of coaching an IPL club like KKR but a misfit to coach top tier international cricket team like India. Even with rohit/kohli gone/removed by him, He is surely gonna take Indian cricket backwards.
