We don't want to fear losing a game – Gautam Gambhir on India’s fearless attitude

India completed their fifth series win on the trot as they razed England to the ground in Mumbai with a sensational all-round performance. Gautam Gambhir was happy to see the team bounce back from the results Down Under and heaped praises on the entire contingent. He also emphasized how India is always on the lookout for young sensations like Abhishek Sharma and how the entire management is willing to give them the long rope.

Talking in a post-match interview, Gambhir said, “England are a very high quality side. We don't want to fear losing a game. We want to get to a total of 250-260, and at times we will get bowled out for 120, but we are on the right track. We are going to do this going forward, got to play fearless cricket.”

He then shifted his attention to Abhishek Sharma, stating, “We want to keep backing players like Abhishek Sharma. We have to be patient with these boys, it's important to keep backing them. Most of these boys believe in the ideology of playing fearless cricket. I haven't seen a better T20 hundred (Abhishek's ton) against bowlers who are bowling at 140-150 kph consistently.”

Gambhir continued, “They (these players) have played a lot of cricket against each other. That's all Indian cricket is all about us. When results start going your way, everything goes well. Our players know what it means to represent 140-150 crore Indians.”

He concluded by stating, “For me having Bishnoi and Varun bowling in tandem was really important. We want to try as hard as possible with the bat. It's about the top seven going hard. Dube probably bowled four overs today (laughs.) There is no fixed batting order apart from the openers and that's what T20 cricket is all about. We want to play as aggressively as we can in the ODIs, want to entertain the crowd.”