Gautam Gambhir is an Indian international
cricketer. Gambhir is one of the only Indian and four international
players to have scored five centuries in a Test match. He is the only
Indian batsman to have scored more than 300 runs in 4 consecutive Test
series. Since February 2014, he is also the highest run scorer in T20 for
India.
About Cricketer Gautam Gambhir
Gautam
Gambhir Early Life:-
Gautam Gambhir was born on 14 October 1981 in New Delhi to
Deepak Gambhir, who owned a textile business and Seema Gambhir was his mother,
who is a housewife. Gambhir also has a sister, Ekta, who is two years
younger than him. Gambhir was adopted by his grandparents only 18 days
after his birth and since then Gambhir has been living with him. Gambhir
started playing cricket at the age of 10.
He completed his schooling from Modern School in New Delhi
and graduated from Hindu College, Delhi University. In the 90s he lived at
his uncle Pawan Gulati's house. Gambhir considered Gulati as his mentor
from the beginning and always talked to him before important
matches. Gambhir's coaches were Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, Delhi's
Sanjay Bhardwaj and Raju Tandon. For the first time in 2000, Gambhir was
appointed at the National Cricket Academy.
In October 2011, Gambhir married Natasha Jain, who belonged to a vast business
family.
Gautam
Gambhir Career
Gautam Gambhir is Baay Haat's opening batsman who also plays
domestic cricket
for Delhi and is also the captain of the IPL team Kolkata
Knight Riders. He made his ODI debut against Bangladesh in 2003 and the
following year he played his first Test match against Australia. Between
2010 and 2011, he has also captained the Indian international cricket team in 6
matches, under his captaincy India also won 6 matches of 6. Both World Cup
finals won by India, 2007 World T20 (75 runs in 54 balls) and 2011 Cricket
World Cup (97 runs in 112 balls) played important innings.
He was honored with the second highest sports award of India,
the Arjuna Award by the President of India in 2008. In 2009,
I.C.C. He became the world's No.1 batsman in the Test rankings. The
same year he received the I.C.C. Test Player of the Year Award was also
awarded.
You can never ignore
some facts of Gautam Gambhir - Interesting facts about Gautam Gambhir:
He scored his first Test century against Bangladesh in 2004.
• Gambhir made his ODI appearance in 2003 in the TVS Cup
against Bangladesh. In his third match, he won the title of man of the
match by scoring 71 runs.
He started his Test career in the fourth and final Test match
against Australia in the Border Gavaskar Trophy in 2004, but he could not score
much runs in it.
He scored his first century against Sri Lanka in 2005, in
which he scored 103 runs from 97 balls.
He played several ODIs between 2005 and 2007, but remained
out of the Test team.
He was selected in the 2007 ICC World T20 Squad, which India
won by defeating Pakistan.
• Later, in 2008, Gambhir also made his place in Indian Test
cricket, playing consistently good fairies.
• Opening partnership with Virender Sehwag, he had added 858
runs in 7 matches including a double century against Australia in the
Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
In 2008, he was awarded the Arjuna Award.
He became the No.1 batsman of the ICC Test rankings in
2009. The same year he was also honored with the ICC Test Player of the
Year award.
• He was caught in a big controversy when Australian bowler
Shane Watson hit him with an elbow while taking runs. After this he was
banned for 1 test.
He was named the ICC Player of the Year in 2009 and also
became the No.1 batsman of the ICC Test rankings in the same year.
• Gambhir was bought by Delhi Daredevils franchise of IPL for
a total of 725000 USD.
• He is the only batsman from Delhi who has scored more than
1000 runs in the 2010 IPL.
Gautam Gambhir is one of India's best batsmen.
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