When Virender Sehwag punched by John Wright: Virender Sehwag was caught by coach John Ride by holding the collar, Ganguli narrated the story

New Delhi. Various types of reports are coming about the coach of the Indian cricket team Gautam Gambhir. Discussion about his strictness is in full swing that he is in favor of ending the star culture running in Team India. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli had to retire from Test cricket due to poor form. It is being told in the media report that the coaches have been talking about giving preference to senior players to the youth who are doing well. The story of a foreign coach John Wright is famous when he caught Virender Sehwag’s collar on his return.

Gautam Gambhir’s name has also been added to the count of strict coaches in the Indian team, but he is different in many cases. Anil Kumble is considered to be a strict coach on players. He made similar rules for every player. Senior or junior, they did not get any discount in practice and warm up. Virat Kohli was then the captain of the team and after the news of the clash came out, Anil Kumble resigned from the post of coach.

Foreign coach caught Sehwag’s collar

Former Indian opener Virender Sehwag, who was afraid of the bowlers, did not listen to anyone. He was asked to bathe carefully by Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly but he used to ignore it. At his time, the coach of the Indian team had said something similar which Sehwag did not agree. Angry coach John Wright pushed the collar and killed him.

The former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly told the incident between Sehwag and John Wright. He had told an anecdote of the dressing room and told that Sehwag had a habit of playing the risk. Former coach John Wright was once more angry with his habit.

Ganguly shared the story of Sehwag and coach

Ganguly had told during an event, we were chasing a small target from Sri Lanka in Edgbaston. We had a target of 209 runs on the seaming pitch. I was looking at the other end, how Sehwag was putting big shots in the air. He finished the match with fours sixes. After the victory, I went to the dressing room and started congratulating everyone, there was complete silence.

I went to Anil Kumble and asked what has happened. He took me to the edge and said John Wright has punched Virender Sehwag strongly. The punch is hit, meaning you are joking or it happened in the right. No, when Virender Sehwag came to the dressing room, John Wright grabbed his collar and pushed it to the wall in the corner and said that you will never play again from India because the shot you played could have defeated us the match.

Anil Kumble narrated the whole story to Ganguly

I went to John and asked, did you punch Virender Sehwag in the right. He said, yes I did this. I asked, did he turn you back and punched you. After this, we all started going to the team bus. Sehwag finally climbed the bus. I told them to come and sit near me. I asked, John Wright punched you. Sehwag said on this, hey, it is fine, it keeps happening. I played a bad shot, they were angry and punched me. After that we shook hands and everything is fine.

When we reached the hotel, I went to Sachin Tendulkar and I asked you to punish Sehwag. He said yes, saw at that time standing in one corner and was enjoying his tea. Did not say anything because both of them know how to resolve this matter.