India Coach Gambhir In Confrontation With Surrey Ground Staff

India caput coach Gautam Gambhir has been progressive successful a confrontation pinch Surrey crushed unit during a training convention earlier Thursday's 5th and last Test against England astatine The Oval.

Video footage from nan nett convention shows Gambhir pointing his digit astatine Lee Fortis, Surrey's caput of crushed staff, and nan India coach tin beryllium heard shouting "you can't show america what to do".

Speaking successful a news convention afterwards, India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak - who was coming during nan incident - said nan coaches were inspecting nan wicket for nan Test, and were asked to move away.

"When we were opinionated connected nan wicket looking astatine it, 1 of nan crushed unit came and said to guidelines 2 and half metres distant from here. In my cricketing profession I person ne'er seen anybody saying that," said Kotak.

"Literally he was saying that 'you tin spell extracurricular nan rope' to nan caput coach and spot nan wicket. I don't cognize really you tin see.

"If personification was brushing their shoes, aliases personification is trying to put thing connected nan wicket aliases personification wearing spikes - if nan curator feels that past good - but it was a very unusual measurement of saying it."

With nary circumstantial outdoor believe area, India utilized 3 believe wickets surrounded by nets adjacent to nan Test lucifer pitch, which is modular procedure.

BBC Sport asked Surrey for a remark but nan nine declined, though successful a video Fortis later downplayed nan incident, telling Indian media "there's thing to speak about. There's thing to hide here".

The incident is nan latest successful a heated and competitory bid betwixt nan 2 sides, pinch nan 4th Test astatine Old Trafford ending pinch India refusing to shingle hands for nan tie early arsenic Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar reached centuries.

India skipper Shubman Gill besides said England were acting "against nan tone of cricket" pinch time-wasting strategies during nan 3rd Test astatine Lord's.

England lead nan five-match bid 2-1 and Ben Stokes' broadside are expected to make changes to nan squad from Manchester's draw, peculiarly to nan bowling line-up aft conscionable 3 days successful betwixt Tests.

Jamie Overton, Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue are nan spare quicks successful nan squad aft Stokes struggled pinch various niggles. Chris Woakes and Brydon Carse person played each 4 matches truthful acold and Jofra Archer has played back-to-back aft making his comeback from a four-year wounded absence.

Meanwhile India will beryllium without wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant because of a fractured ft and they besides person a determination to make connected gait bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who has played nan maximum 3 Tests they stated he would earlier nan series.

Analysis from BBC Sport main cricket newsman Stephan Shemilt

Gautam Gambhir and Lee Fortis are 2 forthright characters. In immoderate disagreement, neither would beryllium prepared to cede a leaf of grass.

It's different illustration of nan precocious emotion successful this series. First nan tetchiness astatine Lord's, past nan handshake handbags astatine Old Trafford, now this. The hostility has been ramped up each nan measurement to a unrecorded finale astatine The Oval. This is top-level athletics wherever results matter and those progressive care. It's small wonderment things person spilled complete connected occasion.

The Oval transportation will beryllium successful nan spotlight from now on. Historically a spot wherever spinners tin expect tons of involvement, that has not been nan lawsuit recently.

There is immoderate speculation England could time off retired Liam Dawson. Under Ben Stokes they person been loathe to spell into a Test without a frontline spinner - it's only happened erstwhile since he took charge.

It could each dangle connected Stokes himself. Battered and bruised aft Old Trafford, location are questions complete what domiciled he tin play this week.

If Stokes tin vessel arsenic portion of a four-man seam attack, Dawson should play. If Stokes' bowling is limited, England mightiness consciousness they request an other seamer, truthful Dawson could miss out.