‘Gautam Gambhir fought everyone’: Shoaib Akhtar’s stunning reveal on Sanju Samson’s comeback | Cricket News – The Times of India
[ad_1] India’s Sanju Samson with head coach Gautam Gambhir (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil) Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar has praised India head coach Gautam Gambhir for backing Sanju Samson, whose red-hot form with the bat has become one of the biggest talking points of the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026.Samson was drafted back into […]
Inside Story: ‘Move on’ – How BCCI nudged MS Dhoni to quit captaincy and hand over to Virat Kohli | Cricket News – The Times of India
[ad_1] MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli (Getty Images) The captaincy handover from Rohit Sharma to Shubman Gill in 2025 sparked plenty of debate in Indian cricket. Nearly eight years earlier, a similar shift had taken place when MS Dhoni made way for Virat Kohli as India’s full-time captain across formats in 2017.Dhoni had already stepped […]