Former India opener Gautam Gambhir threw a barrage of questions toward the Indian captain Virat Kohli for his lack of planning, or rather the non-synchronization of it. Gambhir’s locus-standi, though was Jasprit Bumrah being taken off the attack after bowling just two overs in his opening spell.
"I can't understand the captaincy, to be honest. We kept talking about how important is to take wickets upfront if we have to stop this kind of batting line-up and then you make your premier bowler bowl two overs,” asked Gambhir during a talk show on a cricket website.
“Normally, in a One Day game, there are three spells of 4-3-3 overs. Or probably the maximum is four overs," he added.
The 39-year-old Parliamentarian from Delhi also accused Kohli of following a T20 model of captaincy in ODI cricket.
"But if you stop your premier fast bowler just by bowling two overs upfront with the new ball, I can't understand that kind of captaincy. I probably can't even explain that captaincy. It is not T20 cricket. I probably can't understand the reason to be honest because that was poor captaincy," he said.
The lack of sixth bowler topic was also raised by the former Delhi captain, saying that it was an error on the part of selectors that they went to Australia with just one all-rounder in one squad.
"They could have given someone like Washington Sundar or Shivam Dube or whoever was there in the squad to play the next game and see how they go into the one-day format. But if you don't have anyone in Australia then it is a selection error as well," Gambhir said.
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