India head coach Gautam Gambhir has left out Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah from his all-time India XI. The southpaw, who recently tasted his first series defeat as coach, named MS Dhoni as the captain for his XI. Former coach Rahul Dravid, Sehwag, Yuvraj were some of the other legends named in Gambhir’s XI in a video uploaded by Spoortskeeda.
Gautam Gambhir’s all-time India XI
Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (c, wk), Anil Kumble, Ravichandran Ashwin, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan
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