Ravi Shastri's comments were childish and immature, says Gautam Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir has been making the headlines since announcing his retirement from the game. He is never afraid to mince his words and criticised MS Dhoni‘s captaincy in 2012 recently. The left-hander has now hit back at the Indian head coach Ravi Shastri for his ‘best touring team ever’ comment. Shastri had earlier claimed that the current Indian team under Virat Kohli is the best team ever to play away from home.

The coach received a lot of flak for his comments but he maintained his stance even as Team India lost the five-match Test series against by 4-1. Many former Indian cricketers weren’t pleased with him and now even Gambhir has termed his statements as childish and immature. He also claimed that Shastri hasn’t seen enough cricket else he wouldn’t have made such comments.

“I’m sure that people who haven’t won anything give these kinds of statements. I don’t know what Shastri has achieved in his career apart from winning the World Championship in Australia. I don’t think he was a part of an overseas series win. If you haven’t won anything yourself, you end up giving this kind of statement.

“I’m sure people wouldn’t have taken this seriously. I’m sure he must not have seen enough cricket. If he had he seen enough cricket, he wouldn’t have given that statement,” he said while speaking to Cricket Next.

You have to stay humble

Gautam Gambhir was also of the opinion that even if India had won the Test series in England, such kind of statements shouldn’t come and one should stay humble while always looking to improve. “It was very childish. Even if you had won 4-1, you won’t say this is the best Indian team touring abroad. You would still stay humble and say we want to take this, we want to go forward, we want to keep improving. You wouldn’t say this is the best Indian team ever overseas. This is childish,” the 37-year-old added.

The Delhi cricketer also termed Shastri’s comments as immature and also went on to say that he wouldn’t have taken it seriously either. “I’m sure people wouldn’t have taken this seriously. I don’t know about other people but I didn’t take it seriously because it was a very immature statement,” the flamboyant left-hander who served Indian cricket for close to 15 years signed off.

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