Kolkata: Gautam Gambhir’s captaincy once helped Kolkata Knight Riders carve their own niche with two IPL titles in the last decade and now as the former India opener begins his new journey as the ‘team mentor’, So efforts are being made to include him in the team. A better situation than the current situation. Changing the fortunes of a beleaguered team is nothing new for Gambhir, who took charge of KKR during the fourth season of the IPL after the Shah Rukh co-owned team failed to reach the knock-outs in the first three. “I can assure you that whenever I leave this place (KKR), we will be in a much better position,” Gambhir said at a promotional event here ahead of the upcoming IPL season.
The former left-handed opener expressed his gratitude to KKR and its owner Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and his team for their immense support over the years. I want to make one thing clear. I didn’t make KKR successful, KKR made me successful. KKR made me a leader,” he said. Someone who wears his heart on his sleeve, Gambhir may indeed have a short fuse and it will be interesting to see what kind of working relationship he builds with another volatile but very successful domestic coach Chandrakant Pandit.
“I am a very difficult man to handle. I would like to thank SRK (Shah Rukh) and (Venky) Mysore (Managing Director of KKR) for tolerating my tantrums all these years.” Gambhir, the East Delhi MP who is known for his straight talk, said. Said that the day he joined KKR, Shahrukh gave him a free hand. “He (SRK) told me the same thing that he told me when I joined as a player. ‘It’s your franchise, make it or break it.
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2024-03-19 21:15:16