Zaheer Khan says Gautam Gambhir’s ‘excessive flexible approach’ can create insecurity in India’s white-ball set-up
Former India pacer Zaheer Khan has expressed concern over Team India’s coach Gautam Gambhir’s “excessive flexible approach” in the white-ball set up and says the constant chopping and change can create an insecurity within the players.
Zaheer says having flexibility is good but it must come with clear guidelines to ensure stability within the squad.
“You’ve said that you’ve got to have flexibility. Number one and two will be there, but the others are going to be flexible. Within that flexibility, some rules also apply. There are certain protocols you have to follow. Certain communication needs to happen, which is going to streamline things,” Zaheer said on Cricbuzz.
“Otherwise, you are creating insecurity, which at some stage will come back and hurt you. You don’t want it to be the case. So you’ve got to be prepared to deal with that situation.”
Zaheer Khan also said the entire system needs to be streamlined for the wheel to turn properly.
“That’s why I said recency bias is something very string right now,” he said.
“The situation has become dynamic if you have to compare Rahul Dravid’s approach and Gautam Gambhir’s approach. You can say it’s good, bad, or ugly or you can say how do we adapt?
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“Each individual is a part of this system, be it the senior management or the think tank, be it the players, be it the selectors. They will have to gauge it and the entire system needs to be streamlined for the wheel to turn properly,” he added.
India have won the T20I series against England comprehensively by 4-1 and are leading the three-match ODI series by 2-0. The last match of the seirs will be played on Wednesday at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
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