Former India opener Gautam Gambhir has backed Indian coaches praising them for helping the domestic and national cricketers with their game and advocated for hiring home-grown coaches for the Indian team.

He was critical of foreign coaches and their methods, which he thought might mess with the technique of Indian players in long run.

Gautam Gambhir said Indian coaches have proved themselves in the past and cited the example of Lalchand Rajput, under whom India won the inaugural ICC T20I World Cup held in 2007 and the CB tri-series in Australia in 2008.

"Yes, we don't want and need foreign coaches for our team, they can spoil your cricket and team, what's wrong with Indian coaches? What have they done wrong? We won the 2007 T20 World Cup under the coaching of Lal Chand Rajput," he said to ANI.

"We also won the CB series first time in Australia with the same coach but what we remember is the 2011 World Cup victory and coach Gary Kirsten," mentioned Gambhir.

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He questioned the coaching stints of the previous foreign coaches. "What special work was done by Duncan Fletcher and John Wright? We have to show trust in our local players and coaches," he said.

Furthermore, the 2007 T20 World Cup and 2011 World Cup winning opener praised the contribution of the bowlers in the Indian team’s success.

"Why should we always remember players who scored 97 and 91 in the World cup final. Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh played crucial roles in the Indian victory and their effort was equal to that of batsmen, so we have to remember them too," he said.

Gambhir has been appointed the global mentor of the RPSG-owned franchises in the IPL and the SA20.