Gautam Gambhir Special Day: 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 cleanseed Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in the T20 series. Gautam was earlier in the role of mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL, under whose guidance KKR won the IPL title of the year 2024. Gambhir had a great career as Team India's opening batsman. Left-handed batsman Gautam Gambhir scored 4154 runs in 104 innings of 58 Tests for India at an average of 41.96. His highest score was 206. In his Test career, he scored 9 centuries, 22 half-centuries, and a double century. During this, he also hit 517 fours and 10 sixes.

In his ODI career, Gautam scored 5238 runs in 143 innings of 147 matches at an average of 39.68. His 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, in T20 Internationals, he scored 932 runs in 36 innings of 37 matches at an average of 27.41 and a 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 along with 36 half-centuries. Gautam was always known for his aggressive play on the field. Many times he used to have heated arguments with the opposition players. Especially with Pakistani bowlers and players.

Apart from this, Gambhir has also had arguments with Virat Kohli in IPL and with Sreesanth in Legends League Cricket. Gautam's bat has always been very effective against Pakistani bowlers. Be it the ODI series match or the final match of the T20 World Cup in 2007, in which he played a brilliant innings 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 intervene to resolve the matter.

Apart from this, in 2013, Gautam Gambhir, who was captaining Kolkata Knight Riders, clashed with Virat Kohli, who was playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). This was the time when Virat was emerging as a big star in the world of cricket. Gautam was his senior player.

After this, the altercation between Gautam and Virat on the field in IPL 2023 was much discussed. Then RCB's Virat Kohli argued with Lucknow Super Giants bowler Naveen Ul Haq. Even after the match was over, the exchange of words continued between these players. In this drama, Virat and Gautam once again came face to face and the argument was seen on the field itself. Then Gautam Gambhir fully supported the players of his team.

Gautam Gambhir was also seen arguing with former India fast bowler Sreesanth. This is from Legends Cricket League 2023. Sreesanth stared at Gambhir during his bowling and after that Gambhir also did not keep quiet. Later Sreesanth called Gambhir a fighter who always fights with his teammates.