Gautam Gambhir feels that fatigue is not the reason behind the successive losses that India had faced. He reckons that it’s a part and parcel of the game and a team shouldn’t be criticised on the basis of just couple of matches especially when most of the members of the playing eleven have played just quite a few matches. He also applauded the move of BCCI of organizing the Ranji matches only on weekend for 2013-4 season.
The southpaw was quoted by Hindustan Times saying, "Not at all...if you talk about fatigue, then it should not only affect the Indian team but also the other teams. They should also get affected by it. Sri Lanka is playing the same amount of cricket as India. If other team has played well, we must acknowledge it. Their efforts should be recognised. And yes Injuries can happen anytime and it is not necessary that it happens only because of excess cricket being played these days.”
India suffered a humiliating defeat in the last match against Sri Lanka on Tuesday and the reason was the poor all-round performance. Right from bowling and fielding to batting and running between the wickets, there was hardly much that India could cheer about.
Gambhir was quoted by Indian express saying, "It happens in every sport, there are bad and good phases and these things happen. It is part and parcel of cricket.” He refused to make any judgement on the captaincy of Virat Kohli which was under scanner after some not so good decisions that he made.
The 2013-14 season Ranji Trophy matches will be played only during weekends while the gap between the fixtures will be four days after the third game and every team will play four 'home' and four 'away' games in the Ranji league phase.
"It's a good concept and the BCCI has done a right thing. It would be good to have four days gap and matches taking place on weekends. I support the steps taken by the BCCI.”
Meanwhile his road to making a comeback looks quite tough because of the impressive outing of Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma. This brand new opening duo are looking in good touch and chopping and changing will do more harm than good to the team combination. But Gambhir looks quite positive to make his comeback and for that he has also started working with WV Raman, the former India opening batsman, as a personal consultant for a week to fine-tune his batting skills in his bid to make a comeback.
“Cricketers always work on his game whenever he gets the time and I was also doing the same thing. It's not like I was working on my batting technique," he said.
