Amid the continued feud between India head coach Gautam Gambhir and former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting, ex-cricketer Brad Haddin has revealed the rationale behind the confrontation between the 2. All of it kicked off after Gambhir replied to Ponting over his feedback on star India batter Virat Kohli’s regarding type forward of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Gambhir requested him to focus on Australian cricket as an alternative, earlier than the legendary batter fired a pointy retort, calling the India coach a prickly character.
Gambhir performed underneath Ponting at Delhi Capitals in 2018, which turned out to be his ultimate season within the Indian Premier League (IPL) as a participant. He solely performed half of the video games that season, with Shreyas Iyer leadng the aspect for the remaining matches.
Nonetheless, Haddin teased to elevate the lid on the backstory between the 2, which he reveal within the coming days.
“Gambhir is a personality that will use this as an us versus them mentality. And also you anticipate your coach to stay up for the gamers. His response was prickly there, and you do not want your coach to get caught up in that kind of state of affairs until his techniques is to construct an us versus them. I do know what the backstory. I am going to let you know; simply wait until later of the week. There was a bit of elbow, suspensions and fines,” Haddin mentioned on LiSTNR Sport Podcast.
Haddin additionally in contrast Gambhir to Australian rugby coach Wayne Bennett, who typically tries to take the strain away from his staff by taking the middle stage.
“It is out of the Wayne Bennett type of teaching. So we’re probably not speaking now about Rohit Sharma or [Virat] Kohli. We’re speaking about Gambhir and Ricky [Ponting]. With Gambhir, he has bitten again, taken the strain away from his staff. It is all about him now; it is about how prickly he’s. And now he may have the ability to go and put together his staff. You’d prefer to imagine that he has a really clear plan on how they need to prepared,” he identified.
Whereas he did agree that Gambhir could be a “prickly character” at instances, Haddin puzzled if the latter is doing this on function, particularly together with his staff underneath actual strain after dropping the collection to New Zealand.
“We all know he is a prickly character and might wind himself up. Is he doing this now to take it away from his teammates? I do not know. Solely time will inform. If it is an emotional response, then there’s an issue. But when he is doing it to deflect issues away and take it [attention] away from his staff, that is a unique factor,” he added.
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