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AGENDA AGAINST GAMBHIR?
The Free Press Journal
|November 21, 2025
India's batting coach Sitanshu Kotak is livid with the criticism that has been directed towards head coach Gautam Gambhir after India's defeat to South Africa in the opening Test and he feels some of it is by people with vested interests. The 30-run defeat in Kolkata was India's fourth Test loss at home in the last one year under Gambhir's stewardship.
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"Gautam Gambhir, Gautam Gambhir' (criticism) is being done. I am saying this because I am a staff and I feel bad. That's not the way," Kotak said on Thursday ahead of the second Test starting on Saturday.
He said the criticism is sometimes agenda-driven.
"Maybe some people individually have agendas. Good luck to them, but it is very bad," the former Saurashtra left hander said.
Gambhir has drawn flak for defending the pitch used for the opening Test in Kolkata where India lost despite being in pursuit of a rather modest 124. The head coach had criticised his batters for not being able to adapt.
This story is from the November 21, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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