Gautam Gambhir: Team India performed very poorly on the second day of the first Test against New Zealand. The result of which was that Team India collapsed for only 46 runs. After which Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir seems very angry with some players. And he has decided to drop the players who perform consistently poorly from this series. In which they did not spare the captain and decided to drop him from the team.
Gautam Gambhir took a big decision!
If we talk about those players who had to face Gambhir's anger and because of which they were dropped from his team. So those players are captain Rohit Sharma, veteran batsman Virat Kohli, middle-order batsman KL Rahul and fast bowler Mohammad Siraj. This is the player who has been flopping continuously in the last few matches and has been seen struggling to score runs.
Being the senior players of the team, the entire responsibility rests on the shoulders of these players but they are not succeeding in performing well due to which they have been removed from the team. If we talk about the last few matches of these players, then Rohit Sharma has scored 499 runs in 16 innings of 9 matches at an average of 33.26. Which includes only 1 half-century and 2 centuries.
Whereas Virat Kohli has scored 157 runs in 7 innings of 4 matches at an average of 26.16. Virat has not been able to score even a single half-century or century in these 7 innings. As far as Virat Kohli is concerned, his record is very bad. They are not expected to record this type of record.
Rahul and Siraj's poor form continues
If we talk about KL Rahul, then Rahul has been struggling with poor form for some time now. This year, Rahul has scored 222 runs in 7 innings of 5 matches at an average of 37. He has not been successful in scoring a single century in these matches.
Whereas during this period he has scored only 2 fifties. In which his highest score is 86 runs. Mohammad Siraj has taken 18 wickets in 15 innings of 8 matches at an average of 29.33 and strike rate of 47.2. In which his best performance is 15 runs with 6 wickets.
