New Delhi, Nov. 27 -- Former South African cricketer Herschelle Gibbs has suggested that India should shorten the Indian Premier League (IPL) and focus on playing more Test cricket to improve their performance.

This comes after India's 2-0 home series defeat to South Africa, the ICC World Test Championship holders.

India's Test cricket team has been struggling at home, with their fortress being dismantled by two whitewashes against New Zealand and South Africa in two years. This marks their third Test series loss in 16 months under coach Gautam Gambhir.

In an x-post, Herschelle Gibbs wrote, "Shorten IPL and play more test cricket."

India succumbed to their second series loss at home, that too a whitewash in back-to-back years, as incr...