Gautam Gambhir: Despite the defeat, the most special thing for India was that the team scored five centuries
Gautam Gambhir: After the shocking defeat against England in the first Test of the series at Headingley, India head coach Gautam Gambhir addressed the media. During the post-match press conference, journalists asked questions, to which he expressed his reaction.
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Gautam Gambhir: Despite the defeat, the most special thing for the Indian team was that the team scored five centuries. Openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (101) and captain Shubman Gill (147) scored centuries in the first innings, while KL Rahul (137) scored a century in the second innings. Apart from this, Rishabh Pant (134 and 117) scored centuries in both the innings, which was a big achievement.
In the press conference, a journalist asked Gambhir about Rishabh Pant’s innings in the Headingley match, ‘Some positive things. How was it to see Rishabh Pant’s innings and of course being the vice-captain, how did he handle that responsibility, that role?
Gautam Gambhir : Head coach gave a sharp response
Gambhir did not like the way the question was asked and he reacted sharply and said, there are three more centuries as well. Those are also big positives. I would have liked it if you had talked about Yashasvi (Jaiswal)’s century, Shubman (Gill)’s debut century as captain, KL (Rahul)’s century and Rishabh’s two centuries. So honestly, five centuries in a Test match is a great start. And hopefully your question could have been better.
The head coach credited pacer Jasprit Bumrah for bowling brilliantly in the first innings, where he broke the back of the English batting line-up by taking five wickets. He said, but still, there are some positives as well. Jasprit Bumrah took five wickets (in the first innings). But at the end of the day, if you don’t get the result, we go out there to get the result.
Yes, the individual performances were good. If you want big runs from our top six or seven batsmen, which we scored in this Test match, we got five wickets from Bumrah. But at the end of the day, you go out there to win the Test match. And unfortunately, that result didn’t come. So we accept it and move on.