Gautam Gambhir gave 9 wounds to Team India, situation became bad everywhere in 6 months
Rahul Tiwari
khelja|05-01-2025
Team India had to face defeat in the final match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Along with this, India also lost the series and Team India was also out of the race for the World Test Championship Final 2025. After the big defeat of Team India, head coach Gautam Gambhir is once again under the scanner. Ever since Gautam Gambhir took over as the head coach of Team India, the Indian team has had to see many embarrassing moments. Now, after being out of the race for the WTC final, the team under Gambhir's coaching made another shameful record. Let us know what has happened to Team India after Gambhir became the head coach?
Team India will not play WTC final for the first time
With the defeat in Sydney, India lost the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time since 2014-15. After winning 4 consecutive Test series, India lost to Australia for the first time.
At the same time, after winning the Sydney Test, Australia has also made it to the WTC Final 2025. He will face South Africa in the final. This will be the first time when the Indian team will not play the WTC final. Earlier, the Indian team had played the first WTC final in 2021 and then the second WTC final in 2023.
After 12 years, the Indian team had to face three match defeats against Australia in a Test series. In this series, the Indian team faced defeat in Sydney after Adelaide and Melbourne.
Under Gautam Gambhir, Team India lost a Test match in Melbourne for the first time in 13 years. He last lost in Melbourne in 2011 before this Border Gavaskar Trophy.
The Indian team had to face whitewash for the first time in the home Test series against New Zealand. Recently, New Zealand toured India and won the series 3-0 by defeating India in three consecutive Test matches at home.
And after 12 years, India lost the home Test series. Before that, Team India had lost in the home Test series against England in 2012. India suffered defeat at Chinnaswamy after 19 years and at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai after 12 years.
For the first time, Team India was limited to within 50 runs in a home test against New Zealand. India had scored only 46 runs in the first innings in the Bengaluru Test.
Gautam Gambhir took over the post of head coach of Team India in July 2024. Then the Indian team toured Sri Lanka. Where the team had to face defeat in the ODI series for the first time after 27 years.
Apart from this, for the first time Team India was all out in every match of the three-match ODI series. Not only this, after 45 years the Indian team could not even win any ODI match in any one calendar year.