Overview
- Former India pacer S Sreesanth said on The Lallantop in mid‑June that India should “change the coach” and appoint a mentor in the mould of MS Dhoni rather than keep Gautam Gambhir as head coach.
- He criticised Gambhir’s methods as putting excessive pressure on players and said that a mentor should back and build players’ confidence rather than drop them after failures.
- Sreesanth rejected the narrative that Gambhir deserves the main credit for India’s T20 World Cup 2026 victory and pointed to match‑time contributions from players such as Sanju Samson and Suryakumar Yadav.
- He linked recent red‑ball setbacks — including the 2024 home loss to New Zealand, the Border‑Gavaskar series defeat in Australia and the 2025 home loss to South Africa — to Gambhir’s tenure as coach.
- The comments have generated wide media coverage but the full interview has not yet been released and there has been no reported official response from Gautam Gambhir or the BCCI, leaving the issue framed as a public debate about India’s coaching model.