One-year appraisal: has Gautam Gambhir’s roller-coaster tenure found a tipping point? Premium

In the metamorphosis of cricketers, the way they are remembered becomes a product of recency bias. In their prime, Ravi Shastri and Navjot Singh Sidhu were gutsy players, but for the modern generation, they are just commentators. Shastri, though, has an added layer of being a former coach.

Equally, Gautam Gambhir has to deal with such quirks in public memory. The Indian cricket team’s coach was an effective opener in his heyday, albeit over-shadowed by Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S. Laxman and Sourav Ganguly.

source:thehindu.com