{"id":96696,"date":"2026-03-11T08:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/india-too-good-to-think-like-that-gambhir-shuts-down-pitch-tailoring-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:36:52","slug":"india-too-good-to-think-like-that-gambhir-shuts-down-pitch-tailoring-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/india-too-good-to-think-like-that-gambhir-shuts-down-pitch-tailoring-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018India too good to think like that\u2019: Gambhir shuts down pitch-tailoring claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s head coach Gautam Gambhir has strongly refuted claims of &#8216;tailored&#8217; pitches favouring the home team, asserting India&#8217;s strength makes such tactics unnecessary. He highlighted the team&#8217;s consistent high scores globally, attributing them to player prowess and the T20 format&#8217;s batting-friendly nature, not manipulated conditions. Gambhir also noted ICC oversight of pitches in global tournaments.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s head coach Gautam Gambhir has strongly refuted claims of &#8216;tailored&#8217; pitches favouring the home team, asserting India&#8217;s strength makes such tactics unnecessary. He highlighted the team&#8217;s consistent high scores globally, attributing them to player prowess and the T20 format&#8217;s batting-friendly nature, not manipulated conditions. Gambhir also noted ICC oversight of pitches in global tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":96697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}