Gautam Gambhir, India’s head coach, has been instrumental in the country’s campaign in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Under his guidance, the team has an all-win record until now in the tournament with zero losses. In Tuesday’s semifinal match against Australia in Dubai, India managed to take its much-anticipated revenge by defeating the opponent by four wickets.
Virat Kohli played a significant number of innings and scored 84 runs, which built momentum for the team’s ultimate win. Now that India has secured its position in the finals against the winner of South Africa vs New Zealand, the head coach, Gautam Gambhir, eyes the “perfect game”.
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He shared in the post-match conference, ” See, in international sport, you want to keep improving. You don’t say that you’ve ticked all the boxes. We still haven’t played a perfect game. I will never be satisfied with the performance”
“We still have one more game to go. Hopefully, we can play a perfect game. We want to keep improving, we want to be ruthless on the cricket field but absolutely humble off the field as well” he added
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Gautam Gambhir’s master plan includes constantly downplaying the hype around individual matches, even the high-stakes games like India vs Pakistan, regarding which he said,” The mission to go to Dubai is to win the Champions Trophy, not just one particular game.”
“When two countries, India and Pakistan, play against each other, obviously the emotions are really high, but ultimately the contest remains the same,” hinting at his fixation towards the end goal, which is obviously the trophy.
He has had an aggressive approach throughout the tournament, which is evident in India’s dominant performance in each game, including their semifinal victory against Australia. He even made some shocking decisions like moving Axar Patel to No. 5, and KL Rahul to No. 6 and playing four spinners. Some might be confused with the decision, but in the end, it met the needs.
He also praised the team for their impressive performance in the semifinals, he shared, “We actually planned the chase really well. If you see after 40 overs, we were only four down. We had two set batters in. So, we knew that the kind of quality we have, the kind of depth we had, we were always in control,”
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