As per the report, 'Gautam Gambhir Wants To End...': Conflict With Seniors Is Out In The Open, BCCI Will Analyze the Agreement after...

As per the report, 'Gautam Gambhir Wants To End...': The current evaluation process would alternatively review Gautam Gambhir's recently assumed role as the head coach and see whether he would keep it or not depending on how India performs in the Champions Trophy a month from now amid such expected murmurs in the dressing room that he is pushing for doing away with long offerings to the "superstar culture" in the team.

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Following six out of 10 Tests lost by the Indian team under Gambhir's five-month-old tenure and having also lost wax to Sri Lanka in a bilateral ODI series, the predicaments other than just the one concerning form have ironically arisen for Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma at the international level.

"If India doesn't do well in the Champions Trophy, the head coach's position could become untenable. Yes, his contract runs till the 2027 World Cup but the process of evaluation continues."

"Sport is result-oriented and till now, Gambhir hasn't given any tangible results," a senior BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity.

While the experiment has endangered the jobs of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, the environment as far as Gambhir is concerned is just as prone to shaking. That is because he is being suggested to be daggers drawn with senior players during the Border-Gavaskar Test Series against Australia, which, well, India lost 1-3.

"If India doesn't do well in the Champions Trophy, the head coach's position could become untenable. Yes, his contract runs till the 2027 World Cup but the process of evaluation continues.

Unfortunately, this hasn't also been denied by the BCCI, which, it is learned, has already undergone a review of the performance of the team in Australia. It is apparent that Gambhir and his senior players have not been on the same page about the theme of team culture.

"Gambhir wants to hopefully end the superstar culture that has been prevalent for so many years now. In fact, as captain of Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012, he had dropped the explosive Brendon McCullum from the playing XI to accommodate on-spinners in the IPL final against CSK.

"He has come here to dismantle the superstar culture and that's what has caused discomfort for some playing members," a source, who has seen Gambhir's functioning closely, said.

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Gambhir himself narrated another instance of that while reminiscing about his playing days with Delhi.

"Once, as Delhi Ranji captain, Gambhir decided that they will play home matches at the Roshanara Ground in Delhi North-West where the pitches were green-top.

"But one huge superstar, who was also out of the Indian team, wanted to play the games at the Jamia Milia Islamia ground, which was closer to his south Delhi residence. Gambhir turned him down. Similarly, in the Indian team, he doesn't want star culture to breed," the person added.

It's understood – and this is bad for him – that he wasn't happy about some star players putting forth demands like certain hotels and practice timings during the tour of Australia, while, on the other side, the senior players have been feeling a lack of communication from his end.

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