The relationship between head coach Gautam Gambhir and the Team India cricketers isn’t like that of a typical player-coach one. The coach and the players share a relationship where most of their conversations take place during training sessions. Like, Gambhir told Sanju Samson about the keeper-batter's return to the playing XI (in the T20 World Cup Super Eight match against Zimbabwe) while they were training together. Highlighting what Samson — Player of the Tournament in India’s triumphant T20 World Cup campaign — brings to table, Gambhir said: “We know what Sanju can do. In the T20 World Cup, one also noticed his ability to deal with spin better than the others in the current Indian top order.

Source: The Telegraph March 16, 2026 04:55 UTC