Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir has slammed cricketer-turned-politician Kirti Azad’s criticism of the team’s temple visit with the T20 World Cup trophy as well. Azad also criticised the Indian team, Gambhir, and the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah for visiting the Hanuman Temple in Ahmedabad soon after India defeat Recent Zealand in the ultimate to win the trophy. Gambhir also slammed at Azad, saying that such comments “degrade his own team and players, which mustn’t be done.”
Nonetheless, India’s triumphant T20 World Cup squad, led by captain Suryakumar Yadav and coach Gautam Gambhir, visited a Hanuman temple in Ahmedabad to supply prayers with the trophy. The gesture led criticism from 1983 World Cup winner and Trinamool Congress MP Kirti Azad, who questioned why the trophy was taken only to a temple and never to other places as well.
“It is just not even price answering this query. Answering that query, it’s an enormous moment for all the country. When you ask me, then it’s an enormous moment for our whole country. I feel it’s necessary that we have a good time the World Cup winner. That’s why I said certain statements; there is no such thing as a point picking up certain statements, because these statements will only dilute your achievement. If you desire to dilute the achievements of those 15 players and their efforts, then tomorrow anyone may give any statement, and we start taking it seriously, which isn’t fair to the boys,” Gambhir said during a chat with ANI.
He also stated that players must be allowed to have a good time in their very own way without political or religious interference as well.
“Imagine that the boys have passed through a lot — the quantity of pressure they’ve been under after losing one match in South Africa, the type of pressures the boys were under. Today, for those who are giving such an announcement, you’re literally degrading your personal players and degrading your personal team, which mustn’t be done,” he further added.
Gautam Gambhir also maintained that the main target should remain on the achievement of winning Team India’s third T20 World Cup title, and never on how they have a good time.
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