India’s record-breaking 336-run win over England in the second Test in Edgbaston has probably saved the position of Gautam Gambhir as head coach. India’s biggest distant Test victory occurred when serious questions were being raised about Gautam Gambhir’s coaching in Red-Ball cricket.
With the five-match Test series, now at 1-1 level, the Indian cricket team has not only kept the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy alive, but has also silenced Gambhir’s strategy and the growing criticism around the strategy. But Shubman Gill emerged as a game-chanter for the head coach.
Gill helped tourists to break their 91 -year -long drought in Edgbaston in the first innings with two sensational knock -269 for the Indian cricket team and 161 in the second innings in the second innings. He won his first win in Edgbaston in 19 attempts.
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Shubman Gill’s heroes saved Gautam Gambhir’s job as India’s head coach in Edgbaston
Meanwhile, Gautam Gambhir, who took over as an Indian head coach in July last year, started his term with high in White-Ball Cricket, including the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Triumph in Dubai, but was poor test performance under his lumps.
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The Indian team faced an insulting whitewash by New Zealand at home and then lost the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia 2024-25, remembering the WTC final. After an unstable beginning for the new WTC 2025-27 cycle, with disadvantages on Headingly, many believed that India’s poor form would continue in tests.
But the turnaround in Birmingham has flipped the script, giving Gambhir a very important lifeline. For now, the head coach has got some relief, but the result of the five-match test series going on in England will definitely decide its fate.
Gautam Gambhir got a lifeline with the Edgbaston Test win: Surinder Khanna
Former Indian cricketer Surinder Khanna felt that Edgbaston’s victory had come as a big lead for head coach Gautam Gambhir and said that the team’s confidence would increase from here. With Jasprit Bumrah returning to Lord’s, Khanna feels that India’s possibilities in the Test series move forward.
Surinder Khanna was told by NDTV: “During Gambhir’s tenure we are lost against New Zealand, Australia, and the first test too, so she got a lifeline here. Credit goes to Shubman Gill and the team.
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Surinder Khanna credited Shubman Gill’s captaincy and bowling for India’s historic victory
He praised Shubman Gill for his outstanding performance in India’s historic victory in Edgbaston. He highlighted how Gill, as Captain, led the front, and at the same time Mohammad Sirraj and Akash appreciated their talent with the ball against England in the second Test.
Khanna signed, saying, “The captain is the leading from the front, the first captain to score a dual century and a ton in the same innings, six wickets in each by Siraj and Akash.
