NEW DELHI: India head coach Gautam Gambhir has opened up about the recent debate over his decision to bench key players Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav during the T20I series against Australia. In a video interview with the BCCI, Gambhir discussed the challenges of balancing team combinations, managing expectations, and ensuring transparent communication — especially when in-form players are left out of the playing XI. The move to rest Arshdeep Singh, India’s leading T20I wicket-taker, for the first two matches to accommodate Harshit Rana drew widespread criticism. Arshdeep made a strong comeback later in the series, picking up three wickets in the third T20I and following it with 1/22 in the fourth match. Acknowledging the difficulty of such calls, Gambhir said that having to

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