Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), being one of the franchises that benefited from Gautam Gambhir’s leadership, paid their tribute as well after the appointment of Gautam Gambhir as head coach of the India men’s cricket team. Gambhir, who is a two-time World Cup winner, will start his new beginning after the completion of his England tour later this month with the Sri Lanka limited-overs cricket tour.
Which will be a turning point in his glittering cricketing career.
Heartfelt tribute from KKR
KKR took to social media platform X to honor Gautam Gambhir’s new role, posting an old quote from him:
It is the biggest privilege there is in any football franchise to be able to coach your national team.
This tribute shows that the franchise has a deep level of respect for and regards Gautam Gambhir, who has played an important role within the franchise both on the playing field and off it as a coach.
It is remarkable how sincere and enthusiastic KKR leaders present Gautam Gambhir’s transformation from one of the brilliant players and a team’s backbone to the young coach, who will contribute to the future of Indian cricket.
Officially, the coaching career of Gautam Gambhir starts when India takes on Sri Lanka in three T20Is and three ODIs starting July 27. This series will be the debut of his coaching career at the international level for the team. Crowned as an Indian team captain, though Gautam Gambhir never had a coaching background, he has a good cricketing mind and good leadership qualities to lead the Indian team.
It will be a must-see if he is going to apply this kind of strategy and seek to encourage his players when he is no longer part of IPL mentoring and directly moves to coaching the national team.
Succeeding Rahul Dravid
Gautam Gambhir takes over the head coach duties from Rahul Dravid, who led the team to the recently concluded T20 World Cup, where India emerged as the champion. Some of the major tasks that will directly involve Gambhir as a head coach are the five-match test series in Australia in November next year, the Champions Trophy in Pakistan in 2025, and the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka in 2026.
It was a new beginning for the Indian cricket team, which started a new era under the leadership of Gautam Gambhir, accompanied by his aggressive batting and tentative captaincy. His role will be very crucial in steering the team through such crucial tournaments and ensuring that India remains relevant in the global market.
An Illustrious Playing Career
Gautam Gambhir had a glittering career and played important innings in the 2011 World Cup winning year and the 2007 T20 World Cup. Realizing how Gautam Gambhir rose to become one of the world’s best openers, especially given his penchant for performing well under pressure, proved his worth as an aggressive batsman, earning him the ICC’s Test Player of the Year in 2009.
The master blaster bid adieu to international cricket in 2016, with a cumulative total of more than ten thousand runs across all three types of cricket and some of the finest knocks in the history of the game. His last hurrah for cricket was with the Delhi Capitals in the IPL, and he hung up his boots after the IPL in all formats of cricket in 2018, which has indeed served as a model for many budding cricketers.
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