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Sunil Gavaskar supports Gautam Gambhir after India\u2019s 30-run loss to South Africa at Eden Gardens, blaming poor technique and temperament, not the pitch, for the failure.<\/h2>\n
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Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has come out in support of men\u2019s coach Gautan Gambhir, blaming the team\u2019s 30-run defeat to South Africa at the Eden Gardens on \u2018poor technique\u2019 and \u2018poor temprament\u2019 shown by the batters. He said India should have chased the 124-run target with five wickets to spare.<\/p>\n

Having bowled the visitors out for 159 in the first innings, India took a 30-run lead in the second and kept the Proteas down to an even lower score of 153 on the turning Eden Gardens pitch. However, old issues of playing spin on turners re-emerged as Simom Harmer and Keshav Maharaj ran through the hosts\u2019 batting.<\/p>\n

Some blamed the loss on the pitch, saying that just like the New Zealand 3-0 whitewash last year, wickets with extra help for spin neutralise India\u2019s advantage of having better, more experienced spinners. However, Gambhir defended himself saying it was \u2018exactly\u2019 the pitch they wanted and his players weren\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cTotally agree with Gautam Gambhir. 124 was chaseable on this pitch. There was no question about it,” Gavaskar told India Today<\/em>. \u201cA lot of people are talking about what the pitch was doing, but if you had a look at what Simon Harmer was doing in an over, how many of his deliveries were turning? He was mixing it up really well. He bowled straight and got the odd one to turn,” he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it was not a vicious turning pitch. It was a pitch on which you needed to bat as if you were playing a five-day Test, not a 50-over match or a Twenty20 where, after three dot balls, you try to play a break-out-of-jail shot. That\u2019s the issue. One hundred and twenty-four should have been chased with at least five wickets in hand with the kind of batting line-up India had,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fully agree with Gautam Gambhir that there was nothing wrong with the pitch. The odd ball turned, on Day 3, that\u2019s normal. How many of Maharaj\u2019s deliveries turned? How many of Jadeja\u2019s or Axar\u2019s turned?” he added. \u201cPeople are calling it a spinning pitch. It was nothing vicious. Poor technique and poor temperament have landed us in this situation,” he said.<\/p>\n

The pitch issue is a particularly curious one because former BCCI president, Gambhir\u2019s ex-teammate and Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) chief initially said that the Indian management hadn\u2019t asked them for a rank turner at the Eden Gardens. But later, he claimed that this was the pitch they wanted, and CAB had made sure not to water it for days before the match to keep it dry enough to aid spin.<\/p>\n

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