Wow Gautam Gambhir wow… as soon as he became the head coach, he made a great move, KKR hit a 'sixer' on Team India

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Team India has been announced for the Sri Lanka tour. This will be Gautam Gambhir's first series as the head coach of the Indian team. As soon as he came to power, he has given a chance to 6 players of his team Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL.

Gautam Gambhir has selected 6 KKR players for the Sri Lanka tour. (Photo: PTI)

BCCI has announced the Indian team for the Sri Lanka tour. On this tour starting from July 27, Team India will play 3-3 matches T20 and ODI series. While Rohit Sharma will captain the team in ODIs, Suryakumar Yadav has been given the responsibility of the T20 team. Head coach Gautam Gambhir has given a chance to many young players on this tour. However, the biggest thing about the team selection held on Thursday, July 18 was that 6 Kolkata Knight Riders players were selected in the team. This means that Gambhir has opened the fortunes of KKR players as soon as he became the coach.

Gambhir picks his favourite players

BCCI has announced two teams for the Sri Lanka tour. One team will play the T20 series, while the other team will participate in ODIs. After becoming the head coach, he has hit a 'sixer' of his favorite players from KKR. He made such a move that 6 players of KKR were selected in the team for both these series. All these are the players who have played for KKR in IPL at some point of time under Gambhir's captaincy or mentorship. Although, Gambhir always talks about keeping the team above his choice, but in both these series, there was a flood of his favorite players.

'Love' arose for them

The first name in this list is that of KKR's current captain Shreyas Iyer. He was out of the team for almost 8 months. BCCI had taken action against him for breaking discipline and had also removed him from the central contract. Gambhir got him back as soon as he came. The board had asked him to play Ranji, Gambhir himself has been advocating this, after being out, the comeback should be based on domestic cricket. Whereas he has taken a decision exactly opposite to this. Here his double standards were seen, because Ishan Kishan has still not got a chance. Gambhir has liked Iyer for a long time. An example of this was seen in the IPL. He had handed over the captaincy of Delhi in the IPL to Iyer.

The second biggest name in this list is Suryakumar Yadav. Surya has also been a part of KKR. Not only this, Gambhir had also made Surya the vice-captain during his captaincy. Now he has made him the captain of the team by sidelining Hardik Pandya, the biggest contender for the captaincy of the T20 team. Apart from this, Gambhir's love for Surya has been seen on many occasions. He has praised him in many interviews and has expressed regret for not playing Suryakumar Yadav in the top order.

KKR's youth given chance

Apart from big names like Suryakumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav and Shubman Gill have also played for KKR and are now in the team. Shubman Gill has been made the vice-captain in both ODIs and T20s. It is quite possible that Gambhir may have a role in this. Gill has no experience of captaincy, yet he has been made the team vice-captain, while KL Rahul in ODIs and Hardik Pandya in T20s were the biggest contenders for this.

Harshit Rana performed in the IPL, but he has been selected for the ODI team. Mukesh Kumar and Avesh Khan, who performed brilliantly on the Zimbabwe tour, are out of the team. Apart from this, Abhishek Sharma and Rituraj Gaikwad have also not been selected in the T20 team.