India, Nov. 26 -- India head coach Gautam Gambhir's fiery press conference at the Barsapara Stadium on Wednesday, after the team's humiliating 0-2 loss to South Africa, was a bundle of contradictions. He repeatedly insisted he wasn't there to make "excuses" and claimed he never had in the past, yet went on to list several reasons behind the home series whitewash, India's second in 12 months, both under his tenure.

Gambhir started off the presser by saying that every single individual in the Indian dressing room is responsible for the defeat. "Blame lies with everyone in the dressing room and starts with me, to everyone in the dressing room. I have said it before as well that we win together, we lose together. So I am not going to be some...