Former India head coach and cricket pundit Ravi Shastri hits out at the Team India coaching staff for not setting a good plan in the first Test (20 June to 24 June).
India lost the match from a comfortable position despite five players across two innings scoring centuries.
But they failed to win the match as England chased the target of 371 runs to win the first match by five wickets on the final day of the Headingley Test.
This was the first match where Shubman Gill led India as the full-time Test captain.
Shastri felt that Gill did well as a skipper, but head coach Gautam Gambhir should have planned things well. It could have been a personal hit too, as Gambhir did hit at Shastri when he was the head coach of India.
But back then, the team was doing well in Test.
He said: “I think (there is) a big role of the coaching staff. Take the positives out of the contest. As a captain, he (Shubman Gill) has done more than what can be asked of him. He got a hundred; there were five hundreds scored in the game. If anything, you want the basics to be done better. There are things that are out of his control.”
India have shown good signs in the first match, a better performance overall can make things work in the next four match in the series.
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