India vs England | Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag not pleased with Ravi Shastri's coaching
Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag are certainly not happy with the way the Indian Test team has been performing in England. Both the former cricketers lashed out at chief coach Ravi Shastri after Indian lost the Test series in England by going down to the hosts by 60 runs in the fourth Test.
Both Ganguly and Sehwag looked utterly disappointed with India's head coach Shastri a day after India lost to the Englishmen and lashed out at the coach during a live TV show where they were present as experts. Shastri was given the responsibility of the team as per skipper Virat Kohli's demands after the Champions Trophy debacle last year.
Anil Kumble was the original choice of the cricket advisory committee for the responsible position but was infamously removed following player pressure with Shastri taking charge. Earlier, Shastri had said that this team had the “potential to be one of the best travelling teams” in the world that was questioned and criticised by Sehwag during the show.
“The best travelling teams are made by performances on the ground and not by sitting in the dressing room and talking about it. You can talk big however much you want but unless the bat does the talking, and the ball does the talking, you cannot have a good travelling team,” Sehwag told India TV.
“We already learnt the art of winning single Test matches under Sourav Ganguly but we also couldn’t win a series overseas, so the problems are still the same. The difference was that our batsmen used to score runs but we didn’t have the bowling to take 20 wickets. Nowadays we have the bowling to take 20 wickets but the batsmen aren’t scoring runs,” the former opener added.
When Ganguly was asked why Rahul Dravid and Zaheer Khan did not take up the roles of batting and bowling consultants respectively to assist Shastri, he replied, “I don’t know why it did not happen because it wasn’t our responsibility. Rahul Dravid had been asked to become a batting consultant and he had even agreed. But then he spoke to Ravi and I don’t know what happened after that.”
“The Committee of Administrators also then interfered with the coach selection and we just got out of it. So it’s difficult for me to say why Rahul Dravid did not become the batting consultant. But if Ravi Shastri was given the responsibility, after consulting Virat Kohli, then he has to fulfil that responsibility and improve the team,” the former skipper added.
Apart from Kohli, all other Indian batsmen have suffered in the series. And although the last Test was a closely-fought one, Ganguly has been of the opinion that India needed to score more to win Test matches.
“Agreed that the Southampton Test was a close contest, but after Kohli got out the commentators started saying that India will lose the match. That is what happened and this has been happening for quite some time now, match after match, innings after innings. Just taking 20 wickets won’t win you matches, you have to score runs as well,” stated Ganguly.
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