Gautam Gambhir (Getty Images) After India won the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, head coach Gautam Gambhir said his responsibility is not to social media, but to the media that covers the sport and the people who make up the entire Team India dressing room.India defeated the New Zealand national cricket team by 96 runs in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday. The win added another major achievement to Gambhir’s record as India’s head coach.
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Under Gambhir, India have already won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Asia Cup 2025 and now the T20 World Cup. He also earlier helped Kolkata Knight Riders win the Indian Premier League as a mentor. During his playing career, the Delhi-born cricketer also won several major tournaments including T20 World Cup, ODI World Cup, Asia Cup and IPL.In the post-match press conference, Gambhir said: “My responsibility is not to any social media. It’s for the team. This process should not have been shared. We wanted to play fearless cricket. We wanted to play high-risk high-reward cricket and that’s how it’s played in this format. The captain and I were on the same page. Because if I can work with them honestly, if we can do it honestly, never before has my responsibility – and in the future – been tough. (on social media, even as a coach win two ICC trophies, it doesn’t really matter because in the future I think those 30 people (in the dressing room) will be the most important thing for me in my coaching, no one else matters.”Gambhir said the team wants to play fearless cricket with a high-risk, high-reward approach, which is important in the T20 format. He added that he and the team captain were on the same page about the strategy.He also talked about his team selection philosophy. Gambhir said that players are selected based on trust and belief, not hope. If a player is selected with confidence, he said, that confidence should not disappear after a few bad matches.This attitude was seen when he backed Sanju Samson despite his earlier poor form and his endurance with world number one Abhishek Sharma losing his form during the tournament. Gambhir said: “You pick a team based on trust and belief not on hope. So when you pick someone based on trust and belief, you don’t lose that trust and belief even after four or five games. As simple as that. I never, ever felt like we ever picked a team on hope. The trust and belief that we all had in the team that we had in the dressing room, regardless of whether we’d win this tournament, regardless on whether we’d win this tournament. the confidence would stay exactly the same, so I think that’s something that’s very important, and that confidence and belief will never go away.”
