India Loses to South Africa; Gambhir Defends Pitch, Ganguly Calls for 'Good Wickets'

India Today

This special report covers the fallout from India's 30-run Test loss to South Africa at Eden Gardens, featuring an exclusive interview with CAB President Sourav Ganguly and analysis of India Head Coach Gautam Gambhir's press conference. The discussion centres on the controversial pitch, India's batting performance, and team strategy. Following the match, Gautam Gambhir stated, 'this is exactly the pitch we were looking for'.

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00:00India suffered a 30-run loss to South Africa in the first test at Eden Gabi's after the game.

00:06My colleague Anirban spoke exclusively to CAB President Saurav Ganguly.

00:10Listen to what he said.

00:30Controversy is not the best test pick itself, that's all you can say.

00:35Unfortunately India lost and we still should have got 120.

00:39This is not the greatest of test picks.

00:42Ganghir said that we are wanting this, but we didn't call it a curator.

00:47Yes, that's the instructions.

00:50But I am very fond of Gokam, it's done well for India.

00:56We will continue for a while, but we must play on good pitches in India.

01:03We must have faith on Dumra, Shiraz, Shami.

01:07I think Shami deserves the place in this test team.

01:10Shami is the winner to win test matches for their man.

01:15And win test matches in 5 days, not in 3 days.

01:18What is lacking in Bharti and Bhutan team?

01:21You can see that Shubman Gill is a big fan of Shubman Gill.

01:23But with that, there are many star backers who have done it.

01:27Are there any pitchers or are there any pitchers?

01:32Shubman Gill's vacuum was a lot.

01:34You know, top class backs from 104.

01:36We can't track both in the last 30 runs.

01:41The pitch is the same for both.

01:44And on these pitches tossed compared to Shubman Gill.

01:47Shubman Gill is a big fan of Shubman Gill at the top of the game.

01:51That's why I say that he must play on the good pitches.

01:53What do you want to say?

01:54What do you want to say about Shubman Gill?

01:56It's not many fans.

01:57They go to Guwahati and I expect a good pitch on the…

02:00What runs up on the board and win the game.

02:03A very good side.

02:04One bad loss does not meet from a bad team.

02:08But as I keep saying, they must be going to win the pitchers.

02:10But we've seen that India 4-0 match, Haran makes to next test match.

02:15Last 6 match, 4-0 match, Haran.

02:17And we saw that in Indian violence, there was 117 chains.

02:21So, the captain was in 2004.

02:23It was a tough match against South Africa.

02:25So, is there any mental problem happening in the mental aspect?

02:30Because Bhavir has said that there is no mental toughness in the players.

02:35No, no.

02:36It's completely disappointing.

02:37In England, how did they win?

02:384-0 match.

02:39Gil did 4-0 match, Rishabh Pan did 4-0 match, Rahul did 4-0 match.

02:44How did they win?

02:45I see this type of wickets are a lottery.

02:48And the fast goalers go harder to play in the spinners.

02:51So, as I said, they must play on good wickets.

02:54They have a tremendous team.

02:55Tremendous battle.

02:56And they'll win more number of wins in India if they play on good pitches.

02:59Right now, Indian cricket team coach Gautam Gambhir has admitted

03:04that they wanted this kind of pitch to play on.

03:09And that is the statement that is coming in from the press conference,

03:12the post-match press conference at Eden Gardens Kolkata is that he said

03:17that this is exactly the pitch we were looking for.

03:22Curator helped us a lot.

03:24It was not an unplayable wicket.

03:27And also admitted when it takes on the accountability of the Indian batters.

03:34Gautam Gambhir also admitted and said,

03:37you need to handle pressure.

03:39You need mental toughness to bat on this wicket.

03:42You need to defence the ball.

03:45Defence must be solid in this wicket.

03:47And he has already given few examples like Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar,

03:52and Temba Babuma, the South African captain.

03:56He gives example of these three people, these three battles that they had scored run.

04:01They had a great time in the 22 years of Eden Gardens.

04:07Why other battles were failed?

04:12That was the question that was being raised to Gautam Gambhir.

04:15And on this, he given these examples.

04:18And also said that KL Rahul, Temba, Washington does defence solid.

04:24We have played in this kind of wicket before also.

04:27And he already said that we wanted to play on this wicket.

04:31And we were asked in the way.

04:32Therefore, so we knew there was a second set of tigers.

04:38So I am so impressed I knew if I could run away with them.

04:39And it's too much to be able to play with them.

04:40I am so impressed.

04:42Who knows?

04:43We have a great job.

04:44I am so impressed with the two New Year olds.

04:47Let's get to the right hand.

04:48We are now to choose to see the black man behind that.

04:50I am so impressed by getting his name and his name.

04:52And I am so impressed.

04:54And I am so impressed with the pin to fly.

04:56We're done.

04:57I'm so impressed.

04:58I am so impressed with the other side.

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