New Delhi. Team India’s head coach and former opener Gautam Gambhir is celebrating his 43rd birthday on Monday. Gautam Gambhir has recently been appointed as the head coach of Team India and under his coaching, India has made a clean sweep of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in the T-20 series. Earlier, Gautam was in the role of mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL, under whose guidance KKR won the IPL title of 2024. Gambhir had a brilliant career as the opening batsman of Team India. Left-handed batsman Gautam Gambhir scored 4154 runs for India in 104 innings of 58 Tests at an average of 41.96. His highest score was 206. In his Test career, he had scored 9 centuries, 22 half-centuries and one double century. During this period he also hit 517 fours and 10 sixes. In One Day International Career, Gautam scored 5238 runs in 143 innings of 147 matches with an average of 39.68. The highest score was 150. In ODIs, he scored 11 centuries and 34 half-centuries and also hit 561 fours and 17 sixes. Apart from this, he scored 932 runs in 36 innings of 37 matches in T-20 International with an average of 27.41 and strike rate of 119. Gautam’s highest score has been 75, in which he scored 7 half-centuries.
In this format, Gambhir has hit 109 fours and 10 sixes. In IPL, Gautam scored 4218 runs in 152 innings of 154 matches at an average of 31.01. His highest score was 93. In IPL, he hit 491 fours and 59 sixes with 36 half-centuries. Gautam was always known for his aggressive play on the field. Many times he would have heated arguments with opposition players. Especially with Pakistani bowlers and players. Apart from this, Gambhir has also seen arguments with Virat Kohli in IPL and Sreesanth in Legends League cricket. Gautam’s bat has always worked well against Pakistani bowlers. Be it the ODI Series match or the final match of the T-20 World Cup in 2007, in which he played a brilliant inning of 75 runs. In 2007, Gautam had a heated argument with Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi, which became a topic of discussion at that time. Apart from this, an argument was seen between Gautam and Kamran Akmal in the Asia Cup match held in 2010. Even captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni had to come to the rescue. Apart from this, in the year 2013, Gautam Gambhir, who was captaining Kolkata Knight Riders, clashed with Virat Kohli, playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
This was the period when Virat was emerging as a big star in the world of cricket. Whereas, Gautam was his senior player. After this, the on-field altercation between Gautam and Virat in IPL 2023 was much discussed. Then RCB’s Virat Kohli had an argument with Lucknow Super Giants bowler Naveen Ul Haq. Even after the match was over, the exchange of words between these players continued. In this drama, Virat and Gautam once again came face to face and the debate was seen on the field itself. Then Gautam Gambhir fully supported his team players. Gautam Gambhir was also seen having an argument with former Indian fast bowler Sreesanth. This is about Legends Cricket League 2023. Sreesanth had stared at Gambhir during his bowling and after that Gambhir also did not remain silent. Later, Sreesanth called Gambhir a fighter who always fights with his teammates.