Team India's former explosive opener and current men's cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir is celebrating his 43rd birthday today. Gautam Gambhir was born on 14 October 1981 in Delhi. Gautam Gambhir is known for winning the World Cup finals. Gautam Gambhir played important innings in the finals of 2007 T20 World Cup and 2011 ODI World Cup to take Team India to the trophy. Gautam Gambhir batted brilliantly and scored 75 runs on 54 balls in the final match of the 2007 T20 World Cup against Pakistan.
5 big controversies of Gautam Gambhir
Gautam Gambhir played a big role in Team India winning the 2011 ODI World Cup trophy. In the final match of the 2011 World Cup, Sri Lanka gave a huge target of 275 runs to India. Gautam Gambhir scored 97 runs in 122 balls, on the basis of which India won by 6 wickets. Although Gautam Gambhir missed scoring a century by 3 runs in this match, but India won the World Cup after 28 years. Despite achieving many big achievements in his cricket career, Gautam Gambhir got embroiled in 5 big controversies. Let's take a look at 5 big controversies of Gautam Gambhir-
1. Gautam Gambhir vs Shahid Afridi
In the year 2007, when Pakistan team came on India tour, the third match of the 5 ODI series was played at Green Park Stadium in Kanpur in which there was a lot of abuse between Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi. The whole world still remembers this big debate. Actually, Gambhir was running for a single on Shahid's ball. Then both of them collided and Gambhir felt that Afridi had done this deliberately. After that both of them started arguing. Meanwhile, both the players clashed with each other.
2. Gautam Gambhir vs Kamran Akmal
During the 2010 Asia Cup, Pakistani wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal was harassing Gautam Gambhir by making unnecessary appeals against him while he was batting. Then there was a lot of debate between Gambhir and Akmal. Ultimately Dhoni had to intervene.
3. Gautam Gambhir vs Virat Kohli
During the RCB vs KKR match in IPL 2013, Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli clashed with each other in front of millions of spectators. When Virat Kohli was abusing after getting out in that match, Gautam Gambhir raised questions on his abusing. In this heat and heat, a fierce confrontation was seen between these two giants. The matter had become so bad that there would have been a scuffle between Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli.
4. Gautam Gambhir vs Manoj Tiwari
Gautam Gambhir had a fight with the then Bengal captain Manoj Tiwari during a Ranji Trophy match in 2015 at the Ferozshah Kotla Stadium in Delhi. Gautam Gambhir was standing in the slips and started abusing batsman Manoj Tiwari. Gautam Gambhir told Manoj Tiwari, 'I will meet you in the evening and kill you. In response to Gautam Gambhir's threat, Manoj Tiwari said, 'What about in the evening? Come out now.' Outside the stadium, Manoj Tiwari confirmed to the media that there was a heated argument between him and Gambhir. He said that the matter had gone too far. Tiwari said that Gambhir threatened him. After this, Gambhir was fined 50 percent of the match fee.
5. Gautam Gambhir vs Shane Watson
Australia's tour of India in 2008 remained away from major controversies. But something happened during the Delhi Test which once again soured the relationship between the players of both the teams. During the Test match, Gautam Gambhir was made a victim of his sledging by the Kangaroos, especially all-rounder Shane Watson. Angered by this, Gambhir elbowed Watson while taking two runs. There is no evidence that he did this intentionally. But the match referee took action on the matter and Gambhir, who scored a double century, was banned for the next match.
Gautam Gambhir's cricket career
Gautam Gambhir has scored 4154 runs in 104 innings of 58 test matches. Gautam Gambhir scored 9 centuries and 22 half-centuries during this period. Gautam Gambhir scored 5238 runs in 147 ODI matches, which included 11 centuries and 34 half-centuries. Gambhir scored 932 runs in 37 T20 matches with the help of 7 half-centuries. Gambhir played his last international match against England in 2016. Gautam Gambhir has become the head coach of India on 9 July 2024.
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