Sanju Samson Backs Head Coach Gautam Gambhir With A Jaw-Dropping Comment After IND vs NZ Series Loss

IND vs SA 1st T20I: Indian Cricket T20I Team led by Suryakumar Yav has been dominant so far after ir World T20 win in June earlier this year. 'Men in Blue' have justified ir title world champion very well so far and have lost only one match from ir previous 12 T20I game. India are currently taking on South Africa in four-match T20I series and have started ir campaign on a victorious note. In first IND vs SA T20I that was played at Kingsme, Durban, India outplayed hosts by 61 odd runs.

Sanju Samson Lavishes Praise On Gautam Gambhir

Rajasthan Royals skipper and wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson has h a blow hot blow cold India career so far. Sanju Samson is in some scintillating form and has become first and only Indian batter to score two consecutive T20I hundreds. In 1st IND vs SA T20I, Samson played a quickfire knock of 107 runs off 50 legal deliveries. In his stellar innings, Samson hit 7 fours and 10 sixes.

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wicketkeeper-batsman, who has h a long string of failures against his name despite explosive talent that he has opened up on how Gautam Gambhir supported him. 'When you have a supporting captain like Suryakumar Yav and Gautam bhai and VVS Laxman sir, y all support you during failures. way y communicate with you in your failures is very important. Everyone knows that if we are going through a negative phase, n player can get lost re. So at that time, I received a lot of phone calls from Gautam bhai and Surya, telling me what to work on', said Samson as quoted by PTI.

Gautam Gambhir Reportedly Summoned By BCCI

BCCI has conducted an exhaustive review of India's shock 0-3 debacle against New Zealand with selection of rank turner for Mumbai Test, resting Jasprit Bumrah and Gautam Gambhir's coaching style were discussed. Skipper Rohit Sharma , chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar and he coach Gambhir were in attendance along with BCCI secretary Jay Shah and president Roger Binny. Gambhir joined meeting online.

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It has been learnt that questions were asked about certain decisions taken by team management during course of series. re were also discussions about Gambhir's style of coaching which is very different from his predecessor Rahul Dravid and how team is getting used to it.

"It was a six hour marathon meeting which was obviously on cards after such a debacle. India are going on a tour of Australia and BCCI would obviously like to ensure that team is back on track and would like to know how think-tank (Gambhir-Rohit-Agarkar) are going about it," a senior BCCI source privy to development told PTI on conditions of anonymity.

(With PTI Inputs)