Looking back at Gautam Gambhir's best performances: Batting for India to mentoring KKR
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Gautam Gambhir to be India's next Head Coach
BCCI secretary Jay Shah and other authorities will interview former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir for the role of head coach of the men's cricket team in Mumbai, as per reports. As per news agency citing media reports, Gambhir is the sole applicant for the high profile role. Applications for the top job closed on May 27, with The Indian Express reporting Gambhir was the only person to put his name forward. The Times of India called him the "presumed front-runner".
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Down the memory lane
The 42-year-old, a flamboyant left-handed batsman who scored over 10,000 international runs across three formats, entered politics after eiring from cricket. Here is a look at his performance as a batsman and a coach over the years.
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Best ICC Test Player
Gautam Gambhir is the only Indian to score a century in five successive Test matches between March 2009 to April 2010. He also won the ICC Test Player of the Year Award in 2009. Between 2008-09 in 13 Tests, he made 1,861 runs at an average of 77.54 in 25 innings, with the best score of 206 and seven centuries, seven fifties.
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Winning 97 runs in World Cup
Gambhir's ODI career peaked when he and India won the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. He made a fantastic 97 runs in the last match against Sri Lanka, which involved a difficult 275-run chase. With 4 half-centuries and 393 runs in nine innings at an average of 43.66, he finished the 2011 World Cup as the sixth-highest run scorer. In 147 ODI matches, he has scored 5,238 runs at an average of 39.68 and 11 centuries and 34 fifties, with the best score of 150*. He is the 13th-highest scorer in ODIs for India.
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T20 World Cup winning performance
Gambhir's steady consistent batting helped India win the first-ever ICC T20 World Cup in 2007 when he hit a game-winning 75 against Pakistan in the tournament. He scored 227 runs at an average of 37.83 in seven games, including three fifty-score runs in six innings. In the competition, he scored the second-most runs for India.
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IPL and tryst with Kolkata Knight Riders
Under his captaincy, the Kolkata Knight Riders won two IPL trophies - in 2012 and 2014. In 154 IPL matches played for Delhi Daredevils and KKR, he scored 4,217 runs at an average of 31.24 and a strike rate of over 123. He scored 36 fifties, with the best score of 93. KKR won its third IPL trophy in 2024, the year Gambhi took over as the team's mentor. KKR players and management often credit him with the win.
