It’s My Way or My Way: Gautam Gambhir!

Gautam Gambhir was born in New Delhi to a businessman father and a housewife mother. He was adopted by his grandparents at 18-days old and has lived with them ever since. He started playing cricket when he was 10 years old and was coached by Sanjay Bharadwaj and Raju Tandon.

Gambhir made his First-Class debut in the 1999-00 season for Delhi and played very impressive. He scored 136 runs at 45.33, with a best score of 73 in the two matches that he played. Gambhir was selected for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore in the year 2000.The academy is the premiere place for training young cricketers who have the caliber and potential to represent the Indian cricket team.

Gautam Gambhir s name started doing the rounds for selection to the Indian team. He has also scored two consecutive double-hundreds in 2002 and one of them was against the visiting of Zimbabweans. He soon made it to the Indian ODI team and made his debut against Bangladesh in the year 2003. In his third match, his scored 71 and earned Man of the Match award.

In the year 2007, when India went on to win the inaugural ICC World T20, Gambhir was the highest scorer for India and he was the second highest overall. He also had scored 227 runs from seven matches at 37.83 at a strike rate of 129.71. His match-winning 54-ball 75 in the final against Pakistan and helped India to lift the title.

Gambhir was appointed as the stand-in captain of the national team for a home ODI series against New Zealand in the year 2010. He scored an unbeaten 150 in the fourth match in Kolkata, leading the team to the victory in the run-chase. He was also titled as the Man-of-the-Series award and led India to a 5 0 win.

By: Saksham Gupta

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