Former cricketers are increasingly frustrated with Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir’s reluctance to rely on specialists, especially as India continues to falter on home soil. The era of batters like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Mohammad Azharuddin, and Sourav Ganguly—players known for confidently using their feet against spin—seems long gone. Over the past year, India has squandered its traditional advantage, suffering a whitewash against New Zealand and now losing to Temba Bavuma’s South Africa at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. With the latest 30-run defeat in the Freedom Trophy opener, India now faces the real possibility of dropping another home series.

After the loss, Gambhir strongly defended the Eden Gardens pitch, insisting the curator delivered exactly what the team ma

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