I'm ready to captain Indian Test team: Gambhir

[superstar]

Time to either remove Dhoni from test matches or drop gambir for disciplinary reasons. The authority of the captain is being eroded. If this continues we might lose against England and Nz....which are unacceptable.

[superstar]

+1 for Gambo as test skipper. Chuck MS 8-0 Dhoni out to solely pajama cricket.

As Gambir has said, a good team makes a good captain. So Dhoni needs to continue and the team needs to be dropped.

[Ultimate_Game]

Not a good sign for the Indian team when the seniors are openly fighting and taking shots at each other. Our team is beginning to resemble Pakis of old with groupism fraught and every senior having his own set of players on his side in the team.

[Karan114]

Time to either remove Dhoni from test matches or drop gambir for disciplinary reasons. The authority of the captain is being eroded. If this continues we might lose against England and Nz....which are unacceptable.

Is it really unacceptable to the Indian board and fans? I mean, we lost 8-0 in our last two away Test series with performances of a standard that would even embarrass Bangladeshi and Zimbabwean cricketers. Yet even that has made no difference, with that third rate tamasha circus league attracting crowds in the tens of thousands. We are the laughing stock of international cricket and will continue to remain so as long as our priority remains the tamasha league.

[vamos_rafa]

The full interview:

Having led Kolkata Knight Riders to the Indian Premier League triumph, Gautam Gambhir on Friday said that he is ready to captain the Indian Test side. Asked if he was ready to lead the Test side, Gambhir said, "Absolutely, it is the biggest honour. I am ready for it. Ready for the responsibility of the challenge because you want to take different challenges as well. That's where your mental toughness and character will be tested." "I have heard of the talks (of he being made India captain) but as I have said a captain is as good as the team. It's a successful team that makes a successful captain and not that a successful captain makes a successful team," he said. Gambhir has played 48 Tests and 134 ODIs in his eight-year old international career but said he still feels insecure about being dropped from the national team. "I am very insecure guy as far as my profession is concerned and my insecurity is far more than my security. Even now to be honest. That's how I played my cricket starting from my Under-14 days, everyone told me if I don't score runs I will be dropped. Since I started playing cricket as a kid I consider every game I played my last game. "Even at this stage, if I don't score runs in two or three game I start feeling that I am going to be dropped. That has gone so much inside my system that I have started living with it," Gambhir told a news channel. Surprisingly, he also said that he did not enjoy too much of cricket and the game was just his priority. "I don't enjoy, to be honest, too much of cricket. For me cricket is something which is my priority. I want to get there and get the best result. One thing which has helped me is that whatever I have gone through I try not to give to other people playing with me. Whenever I led a side I have always tried that my players feel secure. "It's not about I enjoy or not. Till the time the team is enjoying I am happy with that," he said. Gambhir admitted that, at times, he had crossed the line of playing with the spirit of the game and has learnt from the mistakes. "I used to show a lot of emotion on a cricket field but I have mellowed down with age. There were situations when I crossed the line. I remember that incident with Shane Watson (when he elbowed the Australian) and after that I apologised to everyone. I could not have crossed the line and I could not have let my team down because I was in such good form. I have matured and learnt from those mistakes. Life is all about learning from mistakes," he said. Gambhir also spoke highly about the IPL and dismissed the talks of banning the Twenty20 league. "We have some fantastic close games this year and this shows the quality of cricket in IPL. Lots of matches have gone to the last over. Let us stop criticising IPL. Indian cricket has been fortunate that a lot of players from the IPL have gone on to play for the country and they have done well. We keep on talking about a bigger pool of players considering the amount of cricket we play and the need to rotate. And IPL has given a bigger pool of players," said Gambhir. Gambhir said IPL or BCCI has nothing to do with the controversies that erupted outside a cricket field. "You can't blame IPL and BCCI for everything. Whatever happens outside a cricket field no one can control that. It's individual decision what he wants to do. So it's the individual decision whether they want to so at the world stage playing with and against some of the best players on the world or they want to go the other way. "Franchises will have to control players. IPL or BCCI can't control every player or monitor every player. I think if any player commits a mistake the BCCI should punish the franchise really heavily. The player has also to be penalised severely but at the same time the franchise has to be penalised as well," he said. Asked what he felt when he had to switch sides from Delhi Daredevils to KKR in 2010, Gambhir said, "That was not my call, which was Delhi's decision. Delhi wanted to retain only one player and that was Viru. They wanted me to go to the auction. "I have been very lucky to be at KKR because the best two years of my IPL career was with KKR.."

[Marut]

Time to either remove Dhoni from test matches or drop gambir for disciplinary reasons. The authority of the captain is being eroded. If this continues we might lose against England and Nz....which are unacceptable.

Not unacceptable to BCCI. They are happy as long as the ipl circus money is pouring in.

[kubrickian]

Shame on this guy for talking about being captain when Dhoni is still at the helm. It shows how desperately he wants captaincy. He had performed worse than Dhoni and other batsmen in Australia and England. How is he ready to be captain ? I say dump this guy and Sehwag for playing politics and dividing the team. I never really believed that Sehwag and Gambhir could be underplaying purposefully in Eng and Aus because I respected them as team men and didnt think they were that pathetic. But I'm now convinced Gambhir wanted to be captain right after WC and Sehwag was helping him. What a couple of crooks.

[rkt.india]

Is it really unacceptable to the Indian board and fans? I mean' date=' we lost 8-0 in our last two away Test series with performances of a standard that would even embarrass Bangladeshi and Zimbabwean cricketers. Yet even that has made no difference, with that third rate tamasha circus league attracting crowds in the tens of thousands. We are the laughing stock of international cricket and will continue to remain so as long as our priority remains the tamasha league.[/quote'] Tamasha cricket has become audience priority all over the world and without audience, no one survives. Let ICC stop organizing T20 cricket anywhere in the world. BCCI has just followed ICC.

[mastana]

I am also ready to become admin of this site. :aha:

[GautiMaan]

As much as i like him,it was wrong of Gauti to comment abt being ready for captaincy when the selectors have not given any indication of changing the captain,the decision is not in his hands and will only cause problems with Dhoni.

[Crookbond]

TBH, I don't think MS Dhoni would be worried about Gambhir's comments.

[bangladeshifan]

i think he was asked if hes ready to take the captaincy job if hes offered. he said yes i am.

[jj_28]

He was asked if he would like to be the next Indian test captain why the hell would he say no?

[Crookbond]

^ Exactly!

[CSK Fan]

Dude wins a T20 tamasha league and they're calling for him to captain an international test side. To quote Govinda's playback singer: "It happens only in In-dia"

If you and other jokers had bothered reading the thread and other posts, no its not based on IPL at all

[CG]

The captain of a weak team is too easy to target. His selections have been questionable in the ODIs - not tests. I do not think we had selection issues in Australia, except the Adelaide test, in which Dhoni did not play. Agree that if we flounder even at home, a change would be desirable. As of now, our test team is screwed big time for a whole lot of reasons, and it may need an overhaul - and changing the captain and bringing in an inexperienced one at this time may complicate matters. Dhoni brings in a sense of calmness rarely seen in international players, particularly captains, he can take the pressure and revive the fortunes of the team if the team has the desire and energy to win.

Do not get me going on selection issues,you can check old threads and if playing a losing combination for 4 tests is not shocking for you then good luck.Being too calm is also not good it is called "dont give a damn" attitude.As i said no captian should be allowed to lead after 2 white washes that too of dhoni achievements he is just going to make his record worse and lose respect.

[vvvslaxman]

I understand where some are coming from. Why nobody talked about Gauti replacing Dhoni before the IPL. That is a valid question. When Kohli took over vice captaincy from Gaut general perception was Gauti should focus on his batting as it was declining alarmingly. This has become a hot topic only after IPL. Before IPL there was even talk of dropping Gambhir from the XI.

[Crookbond]

and hence, the Najafgarh Logic is deplorable!

[vvvslaxman]

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[vvvslaxman]

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