New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has blamed India's head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Suryakumar Yadav for tarnishing the team's victory with unnecessary controversy over the concussion replacement issue. The former India opening batsman claimed that Shivam Dube may not have suffered a concussion during the fourth T20I against England and that the decision to bring in Harshit Rana as a like-for-like replacement was completely unjustified.

Writing in his column for the Telegraph, Gavaskar stated, "In the Pune game, Dube batted right till the end after having got hit on the helmet earlier, so clearly, he was not concussed. So, allowing a concussion substitute itself was not correct. Yes, there could have been...