The Indian team won the Test series on the Sri Lanka tour. Team India, which went to play a Test series in Sri Lanka after almost 9 years, captured the trophy 1-0. But despite this, a bitter taste remained on the tongue because despite being in a winning position in the Colombo Test match, the Indian team was forced to settle for a draw. This result remains a topic of constant discussion. Now a report has claimed that coach Gautam Gambhir did not accept captain Shubman Gill’s suggestion to declare the innings, due to which Team India did not have time to bat in the second innings.

The second Test match played at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo ended in a draw on the last day. Sonal Dinusha’s brilliant century on the last day and the fighting partnerships with her lower order batsmen took away the chance of victory from Team India. In this match, the Indian team declared the innings after scoring 503 runs while batting first and then after bowling out Sri Lanka for 290 runs, asked for follow-on and still could not win.

Gill wanted to declare the innings early

From the very beginning, questions were being raised whether Team India delayed declaring the innings on the second day. Especially because the match was stopped due to rain and then the team came out to bat again to complete Dhruv Jurel’s century. Now ‘cricblogger A similar claim has been made in a report. According to this, captain Shubman Gill wanted to declare the innings before the T-break on the second day. But coach Gautam Gambhir was not in favor of it.

According to the report, coach Gambhir wanted wicketkeeper-batsman Dhruv Jurel to complete his century and hence the innings was extended. Also, quoting sources, it has been claimed that this was not the first or only occasion when Gautam Gambhir refused to accept the captain’s advice, but this has happened many times and the lack of unanimity between the captain and the coach can become a problem for the team.

Why the ruckus over declaration of innings?

Let us tell you that Team India batted first in this match and declared the innings at the score of 503 runs just before the end of the second day. Team India had scored 475 runs after losing 8 wickets till the tea break and Jurel was playing with 95 runs. But it rained for a long time in the third session and then when the play started, Jurel completed his century but for this he spent 4 overs. Team India batted 7 overs after rain and scored 28 runs.

The effect of this was that the Indian team was able to bowl only 3 overs in Sri Lanka’s innings, in which 2 wickets were taken. Then Team India also gave follow-on to Sri Lanka the next day, due to which the Indian bowlers also appeared tired and ultimately Team India did not get a chance to bat in the second innings. The match ultimately ended in a draw.