Gautam Gambhir - The Only Indian To Score Five Centuries In Five Consecutive Tests

Gautam Gambhir was born on 14th October 1981 in New Delhi. He studied at Modern School. He was taken for the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore in 2000. He likes to read and relax with his family. He played Ranji Trophy for Delhi and led them to the championship in 2008 against Uttar Pradesh. His attacking stroke play for Delhi got him in the limelight. In the domestic circuit, he averaged above fifty and when Zimbabwe toured India in 2002, he made successive double centuries against them playing for Delhi and Board President’s XI respectively. The other players who made double centuries in their first outing against touring sides to India in first class matches were Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar.

Gautam Gambhir made his test debut against Australia on 3rd November 2004 at Mumbai. He made his one day debut against Bangladesh at Dhaka on 11th April 2003. He made his T20 international debut against Scotland at Durban on 13th September 2007. He has played so far 38 tests scoring 3,234 runs with nine centuries and sixteen fifties. He has taken 29 catches and made a highest score of 206. He has played 114 one day matches scoring 4,073 runs with nine centuries and twenty-five fifties. He has taken 32 catches and made a highest score of 150 not out. He has played 23 T20 internationals scoring 621 runs with six fifties and five catches. He has played 338 first class matches scoring 17,651 runs with a highest score of 233 not out, 49 centuries and 88 fifties. He has taken 140 catches.

Gautam Gambhir is a left hand batsman and a left arm leg break bowler. He keeps wickets too occasionally. His high bat speed and compact footwork makes him very effective. His nickname is `Gauti’. During the New Zealand tour in 2009, he scored a match saving 137 in the second innings by staying at the crease for more than five sessions facing 430 deliveries. This innings of his led Virender Sehwag to dub him as the `Second Wall’ after Dravid. Gautam Gambhir helped India win that series in New Zealand after a gap of forty one years. During the early stages of his career, he was criticized for not consolidating on the good starts that he was giving as he was getting out in the thirties and the forties. But now, he has made a place in the team after his contributions in the first T20 World Cup in which he made a brilliant 75 in the final that India won against Pakistan in 2007. Even in this year’s fifty overs’ World Cup at Mumbai, he rallied to fight against Sri Lanka and his brilliant partnership with Dhoni eventually helped India win the World Cup. He has been performing consistently nowadays. In the 2009 test season, he averaged more than ninety and has become an important and regular member of the Indian team in all formats of the game. He has grown in stature since 2008 over his contemporaries as well as his rivals.

Gautam Gambhir was declared as the Castrol Cricketer of the Year in 2008. He scored over a thousand runs that season. He got the Man of the Match in the first T20 World Cup final that he helped India win in 2007. He was ICC’s best test player in 2009 for a brief period of a fortnight.  He is the only Indian batsman to score five centuries in consecutive tests.  He is also the only Indian batsman to score more than three hundred runs in four consecutive test series. He has broken Sir Vivian Richards’ world record of the highest number of half centuries over a period of eleven back to back tests.

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