Gautam Gambhir participated in the Manchester Test match 11 years ago
After the defeat of Team India in the Lord’s Test, the eyes of Indian fans have fallen on Manchester, where the fourth match of the series is to be played. This match is important for Team India because if you win here, the decision of the series will go till the fifth and last match. If you get defeat, then the opportunity to create history will slip by hand. In such a situation, everyone’s eyes are on what the pair of coach Gautam Gambhir and Captain Shubman Gill can do wonders in Manchester. Gambhir has experience of playing on the field of Old Trafford, in such a situation how he guides the team, it will be worth seeing. But how is Gambhir’s record on this ground, let’s also know this.
How was Gambhir’s performance in Manchester?
India and England teams are going to fight after a long wait at the Manchester ground. The last match between the two teams here was in the 2014 series. After that, the last Test match of the series was to be played in the last tour of Team India, that is, in 2021. In that series, the Indian team was leading 2–1. But then many members of the support staff, including Team India’s head coach Ravi Shastri, were in the grip of Corona virus infection and in such a situation the match was postponed. Then the match was played in Birmingham in 2022.
In such a situation, now after 11 years, there will be a competition of India-England on the historic ground of Old Trafford again. In the current Indian team, only Ravindra Jadeja is the one who was part of that Test match in 2014. Apart from him, Gautam Gambhir was involved in the playing XI in that Manchester Test but his condition was very bad like the entire Indian team. Gambhir could score only 4 runs in the first innings and 18 runs in the second innings. Even former all -rounder Ravichandran Ashwin scored more runs (40, 46) than him.
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As far as Jadeja is concerned, he could not open an account in the first innings, while in the second, he was dismissed for 4 runs. He got a chance in only one innings in bowling and he got only one wicket as 11th number batsman James Anderson. Team India lost an innings and 54 runs in that match by a margin. The pain of that defeat will still be in the mind of coach Gambhir. In such a situation, they will not have to tell Team India just what to do in Manchester, but also to explain what not to do, so that in 2014, the condition of them and the whole team is not like this time.
