Gautam Gambhir's Ex KKR Teammate Rips Into Him, Says "Wrong Decision To Appoint Him Coach"

Former India batter Manoj Tiwary on Thursday said current national team head coach Gautam Gambhir is "not the right choice" for the top job and he is only adept in mentoring IPL franchises, citing the side's recent struggles to support his remarks. Under Gambhir, India lost an ODI series in Sri Lanka for the first time in 27 years, and they hit a new low when they were whitewashed 0-3 by New Zealand at home, unprecedented in the country's cricket history.

Recently, India lost the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade, and Tiwary, who has had a dressing room altercation with Gambhir during their playing days in the IPL, took note of these reversals since his appointment as the coach.

"See, the results are there to be seen. Results don't lie. Numbers don't lie. The record speaks for itself," Tiwary told PTI in an interview.

Now a deputy sports minister in the West Bengal government, the 39-year-old Tiwary and Gambhir had an altercation in the KKR dressing room during the 2013 Indian Premier League.

Questioning Gambhir's coaching methods and his lack of success with the Indian team, Tiwary said, "he has not been able to carry on the good work which Rahul Dravid did.

"It will take a lot of time for him to get on the track, or to winning ways. Because I don't see any experience behind his coaching the Indian team.

"In Test cricket or in one-day series, I don't think he has any experience of coaching to be honest." Since his appointment, India though beat Bangladesh across formats at home after winning a T20I series in Sri Lanka, which was Gambhir's first assignment with the national team.

But Tiwary believes people with enough experience in coaching, such as VVS Laxman and Sairaj Bahutule, would have been the