{"id":208488,"date":"2025-01-06T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/gautam-gambhir-calls-for-players-to-prioritize-domestic-cricket-after-indias-bgt-2024-25-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T01:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:00:42","slug":"gautam-gambhir-calls-for-players-to-prioritize-domestic-cricket-after-indias-bgt-2024-25-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/gautam-gambhir-calls-for-players-to-prioritize-domestic-cricket-after-indias-bgt-2024-25-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Gambhir Calls For Players To Prioritize Domestic Cricket After India\u2019s BGT 2024-25 Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/feeds.abplive.com\/onecms\/images\/uploaded-images\/2025\/01\/05\/31b314c8875ab07b094dd03c04e2fa451736061823673936_original.jpg?impolicy=abp_cdn&amp;imwidth=1200&amp;resize=755,425&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gautam Gambhir Calls For Players To Prioritize Domestic Cricket After India\u2019s BGT 2024-25 Loss\" title=\"Gautam Gambhir Calls For Players To Prioritize Domestic Cricket After India\u2019s BGT 2024-25 Loss\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-hstick-inner\">\n<p>Gautam Gambhir, the Team India head coach, emphasized the importance of playing domestic cricket after India\u2019s loss to Australia and in the IND vs AUS 5th Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 on January 5 (Sunday). With the defeat, India lost the five-match series by 1-3, conceding the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to Australia for the first time in over 10 years. With India\u2019s next Test assignment over five months away, Gambhir strongly advocated for players, particularly those who are available, to consistently participate in domestic cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Gambhir\u2019s remarks seemed to subtly critique senior players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, who have largely steered clear of participating in the prestigious Ranji Trophy red-ball tournament in recent years. However, Gambhir expressed support for the out-of-form veterans, asserting that they still possess the drive to succeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO ON ABP Live | <span style=\"color: #ba372a;\"><a style=\"color: #ba372a;\" title=\"WTC 2023-25 Updated Points Table; Can India Still Qualify For Final After Loss In IND vs AUS Sydney Test?\" href=\"https:\/\/news.abplive.com\/sports\/cricket\/wtc-2023-2025-updated-points-table-can-india-still-qualify-for-final-after-loss-in-ind-vs-aus-sydney-test-1741924\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">WTC 2023-25 Updated Points Table; Can India Still Qualify For Final After Loss In IND vs AUS Sydney Test?<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would always like everyone to play domestic cricket. That is how much importance domestic cricket needs to be given, and not only one game,\u201d said Gambhir in the post-match conference as quoted by IANS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they are available, and they have the commitment to play red ball cricket, everyone should play domestic cricket. It\u2019s as simple as it can get. If you don&#8217;t give importance to domestic cricket, you will never get the desired players, and what you want in Test cricket,\u201d added Gambhir.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ba372a;\">&#8216;They Still Have The Hunger&#8217;: Gambhir On Kohli, Rohit<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>While Gambhir did not comment on the future of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in the team, he vouched for the veterans\u2019 hunger for the game, hoping they can contribute more for the Indian cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t talk about the future of any player. It is up to them as well. But yes, what I can say is that they still have the hunger and passion, they are tough people. Hopefully they can continue to take Indian cricket forward. But ultimately, as we all know, that whatever they plan, it will be for the best interest of Indian cricket,\u201d said Gambhir.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.abplive.com\/sports\/cricket\/gautam-gambhir-calls-for-players-to-prioritize-domestic-cricket-after-india-s-bgt-2024-2025-loss-3-1-ind-vs-aus-sydney-1741985\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Gambhir, the Team India head coach, emphasized the importance of playing domestic cricket after India\u2019s loss to Australia and in the IND vs AUS 5th Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 on January 5 (Sunday). With the defeat, India lost the five-match series by 1-3, conceding the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to Australia for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/feeds.abplive.com\/onecms\/images\/uploaded-images\/2025\/01\/05\/31b314c8875ab07b094dd03c04e2fa451736061823673936_original.jpg?impolicy=abp_cdn&imwidth=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[14970,14968,91897,58457,14969,107165,1187,270,6435,821,820,814,1373,1374,925,6859,1708,77249,879],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208490,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208488\/revisions\/208490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}