R Ashwin on Gautam Gambhir’s coaching: ‘I was seeing some posts about ‘Gamball’…’ | Cricket News

India regered a horic win against Bangladesh in the second Test at the Green Park stadium in Kanpur on Tuesday. Despite losing more than two and a half days of the Test match due to rains India has been able to force a result through their attacking batting. The hosts scored at 7.36 Runs Per Over (both innings combined) which is the highest for any team since records are being noted.
“I was seeing some posts about ‘Gamball’–someone had shared something about it, which was interesting,” said Ravichandran Ashwin after the game at Jio Cinema. “When we bowled them out yesterday, Rohit was very keen and said that we needed almost 80 overs to bowl at them and told us that we would go hard straight away and went out and hit his first ball for six, and everyone followed that,” the 38-year said about the approach.
Speaking about Gautam Gambhir’s coaching style Ashwin said “The coaches are here for the welfare of the team, and I don’t see huge differences in how they approach the game or the passion they have for Indian cricket. Their passion is at the highest level. I mean, they bring an incredible amount of love to that dressing room.”
Relax Rancho and very regimented
Unlike their demeanors to the media Ashwin on his YouTube channel has revealed that Gambhir is a “very relaxed” coach while Dravid was “very regimented” in their approaches.
“I think he is very relaxed. I want to call him ‘relaxed rancho’. There’s no pressure at all. In the morning, there will be a team huddle. He is very relaxed about that as well. He will be like, ‘are you coming, please come’. It’s like that.,” Ashwin said.
“With Rahul bhai, as soon as we come, he wanted things in order: even a bottle should be kept at a particular place at a particular time. He is very regimented. He wanted things in order,” he added.