NEW DELHI: Kolkata Knight Riders mentor Gautam Gambhir just lately made waves by disparaging AB de Villiers and Kevin Pietersen. In response, former cricketer Atul Wassan urged that the 42-year-old Gambhir possesses important expertise however ought to think about moderating his tone.
The controversy started when De Villiers and Pietersen criticized Hardik Pandya, the captain of Mumbai Indians, for his subpar efficiency within the IPL 2024.Gambhir retaliated in an interview, stating, “De Villiers and Pietersen’s data as captain are additionally not spectacular.”Chatting with ANI, Wassan stated Gambhir is a superb participant and achieved many issues in his cricketing profession.
Wassan revealed that the KKR mentor believed that dealing with adversity and challenges would push him to carry out at his peak. This method appeared to yield constructive outcomes for the southpaw as properly.
“Gautam Gambhir is my junior and he is a superb participant and achieved many issues in his profession. When Gambhir used to play, he used to really feel that such conflicts, would convey the very best out of him and it labored for him. Gambhir used to do significantly better when he used to struggle with somebody. If he may simply tone down a bit then he is received a number of expertise. He can work properly and he is a superb mentor however this battle factor turns into the group’s dogma angle he’s with,” Wassan stated.
The 56-year-old additional expressed his disfavor in direction of the prevailing notion the place the captain receives all of the reward when a group succeeds, but shoulders criticism when the group falters.
“I’m additionally a not large fan of placing all of the accolades to the captain and all of the failures on the captain’s head. So, it is his viewpoint whether or not he appreciated the captaincy of Ab de Villiers or not. You possibly can say Sachin was not a very good captain and he’ll agree with this. Criticizing the ex-player captaincy simply to copy one other captain who is just not doing properly is just not proper then you definitely’re simply utilizing previous gamers as a benchmark and giving a perspective towards the brand new captain,” he added.
The Mumbai-based franchise stands on the backside of the IPL 2024 standings with eight factors. Hardik Pandya’s facet displayed a sloppy efficiency within the 17th season of the match and received simply 4 video games after enjoying 13 matches. MI was additionally the primary franchise in IPL 2024 to get knocked out of the playoffs.
“I do not suppose he has achieved something from a group’s viewpoint, Hardik Pandya continues to be an IPL-winning captain. So you need to solely evaluate oranges to oranges. Not apple to oranges,” Gambhir added in his interview with a media outlet.
Underneath Gambhir’s mentorship, KKR received 9 of 13 matches, and stand on the high of the IPL 2024 standings with 19 factors and have a web run fee of +1.428. The Kolkata-based franchise solely misplaced three matches within the 17th season which got here towards Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK), Rajasthan Royals (RR), and Punjab Kings (PBKS).
Of their upcoming match, KKR will tackle Rajasthan Royals on Sunday on the Assam Cricket Affiliation Stadium in Guwahati.
(With ANI inputs)
The controversy started when De Villiers and Pietersen criticized Hardik Pandya, the captain of Mumbai Indians, for his subpar efficiency within the IPL 2024.Gambhir retaliated in an interview, stating, “De Villiers and Pietersen’s data as captain are additionally not spectacular.”Chatting with ANI, Wassan stated Gambhir is a superb participant and achieved many issues in his cricketing profession.
Wassan revealed that the KKR mentor believed that dealing with adversity and challenges would push him to carry out at his peak. This method appeared to yield constructive outcomes for the southpaw as properly.
“Gautam Gambhir is my junior and he is a superb participant and achieved many issues in his profession. When Gambhir used to play, he used to really feel that such conflicts, would convey the very best out of him and it labored for him. Gambhir used to do significantly better when he used to struggle with somebody. If he may simply tone down a bit then he is received a number of expertise. He can work properly and he is a superb mentor however this battle factor turns into the group’s dogma angle he’s with,” Wassan stated.
The 56-year-old additional expressed his disfavor in direction of the prevailing notion the place the captain receives all of the reward when a group succeeds, but shoulders criticism when the group falters.
“I’m additionally a not large fan of placing all of the accolades to the captain and all of the failures on the captain’s head. So, it is his viewpoint whether or not he appreciated the captaincy of Ab de Villiers or not. You possibly can say Sachin was not a very good captain and he’ll agree with this. Criticizing the ex-player captaincy simply to copy one other captain who is just not doing properly is just not proper then you definitely’re simply utilizing previous gamers as a benchmark and giving a perspective towards the brand new captain,” he added.
The Mumbai-based franchise stands on the backside of the IPL 2024 standings with eight factors. Hardik Pandya’s facet displayed a sloppy efficiency within the 17th season of the match and received simply 4 video games after enjoying 13 matches. MI was additionally the primary franchise in IPL 2024 to get knocked out of the playoffs.
“I do not suppose he has achieved something from a group’s viewpoint, Hardik Pandya continues to be an IPL-winning captain. So you need to solely evaluate oranges to oranges. Not apple to oranges,” Gambhir added in his interview with a media outlet.
Underneath Gambhir’s mentorship, KKR received 9 of 13 matches, and stand on the high of the IPL 2024 standings with 19 factors and have a web run fee of +1.428. The Kolkata-based franchise solely misplaced three matches within the 17th season which got here towards Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK), Rajasthan Royals (RR), and Punjab Kings (PBKS).
Of their upcoming match, KKR will tackle Rajasthan Royals on Sunday on the Assam Cricket Affiliation Stadium in Guwahati.
(With ANI inputs)
