As a cricketer, he was a left-handed opening batsman who played domestic cricket for Delhi, and captained Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL). It was also India's highest successful run chase in Australia. [24], Gambhir was selected in India's squad for the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, which India went on to win in South Africa, beating Pakistan in the final. With the arrivals of M Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan, Gambhir was sidelined until an England tour in 2014 when he was called-up as back-up opener. Scores a, While still fighting for a place in Tests, gets to play in the World Twenty20, and scores three fifties in five matches of a successful campaign, including the top score of 75 in, Scores back-to-back fourth-innings centuries - 132 in a chase of 271 in, … which duly arrives when he is picked to open the innings with Virender Sehwag on the Sri Lanka Test tour. His mother was a housewife and father as a businessman in the textile sector. Three weeks later at Sydney, he scored a career-best 113 off 119 balls against Australia, in a high scoring match which India lost by 18 runs. He could be more aggressive than Virender Sehwag, played the kind of back-to-the-wall innings that would do Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman proud, and accumulated without taking any risks, much like Sachin Tendulkar has been doing in the last quarter of his career. It was his fifth century in as many Tests and made him the fourth player to achieve this feat. In 2019, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and won election to the Lok Sabha from East Delhi. Later, after two years of his birth, Gambhir’s family got blessed with a baby girl, Ekta. [2] He was conferred the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting award, in the year 2008 by the President of India. He is a current member of the Lok Sabha since 2019. 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