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Gambhir Birthday: The Only Indian Player To Score A Century in Five Consecutive Test Matches

Gautam Gambhir Birthday: The only Indian player to score a century in five consecutive Test matches, former India cricketer opener, and current MP Gautam Gambhir is celebrating his 41st birthday today.

He is getting many congratulatory messages on this occasion. Gautam Gambhir is known for his excellent game in Team India.

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He has played many important innings for the country on many important occasions, most of which were match-winning innings. Know many interesting facts related to Gautam Gambhir’s life.

Gambhir Birthday: The Only Indian Player To Score A Century in Five Consecutive Test Matches

The reason behind ‘adopted’ cricket:-

Born on 14 October 1981 in Delhi, Gautam Gambhir started playing cricket at the age of just 10. Only one would know that when Gambhir was just 18 days old, his maternal grandparents adopted him.

After this, his whole life has been spent in Nanihal. Then made his debut for Team India at the age of 22 and started his career in 2003 with one-day match against Bangladesh.

He made his debut in Test cricket in 2004. Gambhir made many records in his career, he was such a cricketer of India who also did some such feats which even Sachin-Sehwag could never do.

Gambhir Birthday: The Only Indian Player To Score A Century in Five Consecutive Test Matches

The Players who scored consecutive centuries in 5 test matches:-

Let us tell you that Gautam Gambhir is the only Indian player who has scored a century in five consecutive Test matches. He is also the only Indian batsman to score more than 300 runs in four test series.

Even if it is the 2011 World Cup final. During that time he played the biggest innings against Sri Lanka.

In that match, Gambhir played a brilliant innings of 97 runs and played an important role in India winning the World Cup. Gautam Gambhir has played 58 Tests, 147 ODIs and 37 T20 Internationals.

Gambhir Birthday: The Only Indian Player To Score A Century in Five Consecutive Test Matches

Very few would know that Gambhir was dropped from the team in 2013, but then he returned twice.

In an interview he said:-

However, he could not get set in the regular team, in an interview he said that Dhoni had dropped him from the World Cup 2015 race in 2012.

At the same time, he also claimed that Dhoni kept him out of the team in the name of a good fielder, while he was in good form. At present, Gambhir is active in politics at this time. Even on the pitches of politics, he is seen taking a front.

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In 2019, he won from East Delhi seat, one of the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi from BJP.

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