Due to the absence of Rohit Sharma and losing the home series, the Indian team was under a lot of pressure before the Perth Test. Despite this, all the players performed brilliantly and gave a crushing defeat to Australia. In the absence of the Indian captain, the team’s head coach Gautam Gambhir stood firmly with the team. But as soon as the match ended on 26 November, he had to return to India due to personal reasons. Now an update has come out regarding Gambhir joining Team India again.
Gambhir will join Team India on this day
Gautam Gambhir was not with Team India during the match between India and Australia’s PM XI in Canberra. But according to the report of ESPNcricinfo, he has flown to Australia and will join Team India on Tuesday 3rd December. Let us tell you that Rohit Sharma and other players and coaching staff have reached Adelaide from Canberra. The head coach of the team will meet him directly there.
Gautam Gambhir will be present with the team during the Pink Ball Test to be held from 6th December. Before this, he will plan the match with captain Rohit Sharma. However, instead of him, the coaching staff included assistant coaches Abhishek Nair, Ryan ten Deschate and bowling coach Morne Morkel were handling the responsibility of training of Team India. The players practiced extensively for day-night matches under his supervision.
Team seen ready for pink ball test
A practice match was played in Canberra for the only pink ball test in the 5-match series between India and Australia. Many positive signs were seen in this match. Both India’s bowlers and batsmen looked ready for the day-night test. First the bowlers bowled out PM XI’s team for 240 runs. Then the batsmen showed their strength and won the match easily.
Harshit Rana took maximum 4 wickets and Akash Deep took 2 wickets. Apart from these two, Mohammad Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar also got 1 wicket each. Yashasvi Jaiswal was out after playing an inning of 45 runs. KL Rahul scored 27 runs and Shubhman Gill scored 50 runs. After this he was called back. Secondly, Nitish Reddy, Jadeja and Sundar also showed their strength with the bat.