Gautam Gambhir explains why he backed Abhishek: Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir explained why he gave a chance to Abhishek Sharma.

New Delhi: Leaving aside the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026, the tournament was nothing special for Team India’s opener batsman Abhishek Sharma. Abhishek could not even open his account in the first three matches, but after this he scored two half-centuries, including the half-century in the final. After continuous flop shows in the beginning of T20 World Cup for Team India, Abhishek Sharma was given a chance.

In such a situation, now Team India coach Gautam Gambhir has told why Abhishek was not dropped from the playing eleven. Gambhir said in Geo Star’s program, “My experience in IPL 2014 was worse than that when I was out for zero in four consecutive matches. I just told him that people will look at your scores and talk about your form, but actually you are not in bad form, you are just not able to score runs.

Gautam Gambhir had full confidence in Abhishek Sharma

He said, “Your form can be assessed correctly only when you have played 20 to 30 balls and he has not played even 20 balls yet. I just wanted him to play more aggressively in every next match than the previous one.

The head coach said, “There was no doubt about Abhishek. To be honest, we all had full confidence in every player selected to represent the country in the T20 World Cup. Apart from Abhishek Sharma, Gautam Gambhir also praised Team India’s wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson. Regarding Sanju, Gambhir said that if he remains in his rhythm then he can change the course of the match against any team in the first 6 overs. Let us tell you that Sanju had played consecutive half-centuries in the last three matches of the T20 World Cup.