Former England player Steve Harmison has warned India coach Gautam Gambhir that he’ll get ‘pelters from everywhere’ if he goes back home having lost the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. Harminson, in a rather brutal attack on the Indian, said that the Delhi man’s ‘stubbornness’ hasn’t ‘warmed up to anybody’ and he won’t be able to ‘sweet-talk his way’ out of the trouble he’s in currently. Gambhir took over the coaching job across formats midway through 2024. Under him, India beat Bangladesh 2-0 in Tests at home before going on a forgettable run, suffering a historic first white wash at home to New Zealand, losing the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in 10 years and then now going 2-1 down in England. Before the ongoing Test at Old Trafford, he had seen just four wins in 13 Tests. “His stubbornness and his personality don’t warm up to anybody from the outside,” Harminson said on talkSport. “He is not the sort of character or personality who can sweet-talk his way out of things. Gautam Gambhir, as long as you win at home, you can get away with a few defeats away from home. But when you get beaten 3-0 against New Zealand at home and then you lose both the Border-Gavaskar and Anderson-Tendulkar, getting on a plane and going back to India, you are going to get pelters from everywhere,” he added. Harminson said instead of saving himself, Gambhir will end up digging a deeper hole for himself. “He will show his teeth, he will snarl, and he will, if anything, dig a deeper hole or bring the bunker even further over the top. And I don’t think he can, with this team, because I am not sure how long Jasprit Bumrah has got left if you keep bowling him the way he is bowling,” said Harmison. Gambhir’s white-ball record has been contrasting. India have won more T20Is and ODIs with him than they have lost, while also clinching the 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the UAE.