Fans raised slogans in front of coach Gautam GambhirImage Credit source: Getty Images
After Ireland, the Indian team is getting only defeats in England also. The current T20 World Champion team is waiting for its first success under the leadership of new captain Shreyas Iyer. Team India also had to face defeat in the third match of the T20 series against England. This time the defeat was the most crushing, where England won the match by 125 runs. This defeat was already quite embarrassing but after the result, coach Gautam Gambhir had to face slogans from the fans, who were demanding to include star batsman Sanju Samson in the playing-11 again.
All this happened in Nottingham, where Trent Bridge Stadium did not prove to be good for Team India this time too. About 4 years ago, Suryakumar Yadav had scored a memorable century on the same ground but even that did not help the team win. The victory was not achieved even once but this time the entire team together could not score 100 runs and was bundled out for only 76 runs. Every batsman of Team India failed this time, including captain Shreyas Iyer to 15-year-old young sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi.
With this defeat, the Indian team has lagged 0-2 in the 5-match series and the fans are filled with anger. After the defeat, this anger also came out openly outside the Trent Bridge Stadium, when the Indian players were boarding their bus to return to the hotel. Dozens of Indian fans were waiting for this moment outside the stadium gate and as soon as all the players including coach Gambhir started returning, they started sloganeering. Slogans were raised for Sanju Samson, these fans were demanding his inclusion again in the playing-11.
This sloganeering was very loud and continued for a long time. Coach Gambhir apparently did not react to these slogans and quietly sat in the team bus along with team vice-captain Tilak Verma. But the current performance of the team has definitely forced the team management including Gambhir to think whether the decision to remove Samson was right? If this decision was correct, then can a similar step be taken against Ishan Kishan, who has been ineffective so far in this entire tour. If this happens, then Samson may return in place of Ishaan in the next match.
