Gautam Gambhir Slams This Indian Batter For Leaking Dressing Room Chats During BGT2024-25

Gautam Gambhir is having a hard time As Team India head coach since India's loss to Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The loss put India out of the WTC final contention race.

Since the loss, there have been reports about a few unwanted controversies within the Indian team. Unfortunately, Gambhir has found himself in the spot amid all the controversies.

After he reportedly reprimanded Indian bowling coach Morne Morkel for coming late to the practice session, now he has blamed Sarfaraz Khan for leaking dressing room chats during India's tour to Australia.

According to News24 Sports, Gambhir said about the incident in the BCCI’s review meeting of the Australia tour in Mumbai. He said Sarfaraz, leaked the bit about the head coach’s angry speech to the team after India’s big defeat in the fourth Test of the series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Gambhir refuted reports of unpleasant dressing room atmosphere within the team after the fifth Test in Sydney.

“Debates between coach and player should remain in the dressing room. Stern words. They were just reports, not truth. "Indian cricket will be in safe hands till honest people stay in the dressing room. The only thing that keeps you in the dressing room is performance. There were honest words and honesty is important. There is only one tendency and there is only one discussion -- it's the team's first ideology that matters."Gambhir said.

Gautam Gambhir Under Pressure As India Head Coach

An Indian Express report previously said that head coach Gautam Gambhir lashed out at the team for not putting in the performances in the series against Australia. His "Bahut Ho Gaya" comment went viral as he expressed his disappointment on how the team and especially the senior players performed in the series. That report had said the Indian dressing room’s environment was for from ideal, with a lot of characters at play, creating chaos.

Team India will return back to playing international cricket with the white-ball series against England followed by the Champions Trophy 2025 campaign.