ISHANT SHARMA (a picture of credit: x) New Delhi: Former coach Gary Kirsten from the Indian World Cup has expressed his admiration for the way Gautam Gambhir recently a pastel on a trusted 2-2 drawing on a hard test tour in England.India and England settled on the stalemates after five intensively fought tests played for almost two months.“I am really happy for the Indian cricket team to balance the series and it is great for Indian cricket. I am really pleased for Gautam Gambhira, I know him well. Really pleased and pleased with what he achieved with the team,” Kirsten told reporters on the side.“At the moment, India is doing really well. We are all excited about the success of the Indian team, I certainly do it. They now have a great lot of young players who are going through now and are really exciting to support them,” Kirsten added.After losing the operator of the series in Leeds, India organized a remarkable comeback to equalize the rubber, which closed the famous victory of visitors in the oval.India won the 2011 World Championship at home under the leadership of Kirsten and during her time with the team also reached the number one position in the test format.Gambhir was part of this World Cup team as the opening partner of Virender Sehwag and in the finals against Sri Lanka played fine knocking 97.Kirsten remembered his work as a coach in this part of the world and said that one of his highlights with India was to get Ishant Sharma to practice launching on the nets and eventually help VVS Laxman rescue the test against Australia in Mohali in 2010.
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“One of the highlights of my three years with the Indian team was to get Ishant Sharma to descend with his fawn pads and then make him face 48 balls in the test match against Australia with VVS Laxman to win the game.“I really liked it from the point of view of leadership because he didn’t think he could bat.Sets target 216, India was left to stare at 124 at eight, but Laxman (73 not outdoors), first with Ishant (31), and then next to No. 11 Pragyan Ojha led India to an unforgettable victory in one goal.
