Rahul Tiwari
khelja|06-01-2025
Former Indian cricketers are expressing their anger at the team management and players after the Indian cricket team lost the Border Gavaskar Trophy. Along with losing the Border Gavaskar Trophy, the Indian team also lost the chance to play the WTC final. Now former cricketer Mohammad Kaif has slammed Team India. He looked extremely angry with the team's performance. He talked about improving the team. He also advised senior players to play domestic cricket. Kaif vented out his anger on the Indian players.
Mohammad Kaif expressed his anger on social media after Team India's defeat in the Sydney Test. He seemed angry with the poor performance of the Indian players. He raised questions on Team India's red ball cricket. Kaif said in the video shared on social media, 'Look, you will loot all the applause by defeating Pakistan on 23rd February (Champions Trophy). Everyone will say what a job you did in defeating Pakistan. And we are the champion team in white ball. Apart from this, Kaif advised that Team India will have to improve its performance in red ball cricket also. He wrote in the post, 'True words. 'Bitter truth'.
Kaif further said, 'If India has to win the World Test Championship (WTC), then we will have to make a Test match team, learn to play on the turning track, in Australia we will get a seaming track. So you don't know how to bat there. We have become mere white-ball fanatics. It is true that you have to do a lot of work. Be far behind'.
Eat good food.. bitter truth.#TestCricket #BGT #AUSvIND#CricketWithKaif11 pic.twitter.com/WXFJY9aLSq
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) January 5, 2025
Kaif advised the Indian players that if they want to win the WTC, they will have to play domestic cricket. He said, 'If you want to win the WTC then players will have to play in domestic cricket. Will have to play on turning track. Will have to practice on seaming track. Otherwise we will not be able to win.
Kaif further said, 'We have lost 3-1 and I believe that this is right, now this is your wakeup call. You have to focus on the Test match, I am not just talking about Gambhir (Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir). I am saying that it is the fault of all the players. All the players get a chance to play Ranji Trophy, they say no, who should play Ranji? The match lasts for five days so we need rest. If players neither play Ranji nor practice matches, then how will you become a better player? It is important to practice. Real cricket is test cricket. Unless you practice and remain in Test matches continuously, you cannot win the WTC. This is a true thing. Whatever happened is right, now it's time to work.
Before Mohammad Kaif, former cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar and Irfan Pathan had also advised Indian players to play Ranji Trophy. Sunil Gavaskar had said that the next round of Ranji Trophy is starting from January 23, let's see which players play in it. Gavaskar's reference was to Virat and Rohit. Both these legends flopped miserably on the Australian tour. Whereas Pathan had advised Virat to play domestic cricket.