The Indian cricket team lost another test series under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. South Africa won the 2-match Test series played in India 2-0. This defeat also raised questions on Gambhir’s coaching, he sent Washington Sundar to bat at number three in one test and in the next match, sent him down and played Sai Sudarshan in this position.

The strategy of keeping both the wicket keepers in the playing 11 in the form of Dhruv Jurel and Rishabh Pant was also a flop. All-rounders are being given importance in the team instead of test specialists, while they are not even being utilized. Like Nitish Kumar Reddy played the second test, but he bowled only 10 overs in both the innings. Here we have brought the report card of Gautam Gambhir. Know how many Tests India has played under his coaching, how many matches India won and how many lost. Here the record of Test series under his coaching is also given.

Gautam Gambhir’s record as a coach in Test cricket

The Indian cricket team has played a total of 19 tests so far under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. Team India has won only 7 of these matches. The defeat against South Africa in Guwahati is India’s 10th defeat under Gambhir’s coaching.

• Total matches- 19
• won- 7
• Lose – 10
• draw-2
• Winning percentage- 36.84

India has lost 3 test series under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir

This was India’s sixth Test series against South Africa under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. India had lost the Test series against New Zealand by 0-3 at home, after which South Africa also defeated Team India in India. Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, India ended the 5-match Test series 2-2 on the England tour, after which it defeated West Indies 2-0 at home. But Team India failed completely in front of the World Test Champion team South Africa.

• Total series- 6
• Series won- 2
• Lost series- 3
• Series Draw- 1

Team India has lost 3 out of 6 test series played under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. After losing 0-3 at home to New Zealand in 2024, Team India lost the Border Gavaskar Trophy (2024-2025) series 1-3 against Australia. Now South Africa defeated Team India in India. This is the second time under Gambhir’s coaching that Team India has got a clean sweep in the Test series at home.

Gautam Gambhir is celebrating his 44th birthday today, on this occasion he is in Delhi where India vs West Indies second test is being played. Presently he is the head coach of Team India and after celebrating his birthday today, he will leave for Australia on Wednesday. His career as a player was also brilliant, he was a part of the T20 World Cup (2007) and ODI World Cup (2011) winning teams. As a captain, he also won the IPL trophy and while being a mentor, he made KKR the champion. While being his coach, Team India won the Champions Trophy title this year.

Gautam Gambhir was born on 14 October 1981 in Delhi. According to his Wikipedia page, Gambhir’s grandfather came to Delhi from Multan in 1947. Gambhir was adopted by his maternal grandparents, since then he lived with them. Gambhir started playing cricket at the age of 10, he studied at Modern School, Delhi. In his early days, Gambhir learned the tricks of cricket under the coaching of Sanjay Bhardwaj from Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy.

Made international debut in 2003

Gautam Gambhir played his first international match against Bangladesh on 11 April 2003, it was an ODI match. A year later, he made his Test debut and then T20 debut in 2007. Gambhir played 242 international matches in all three formats.

• 58 test- 4154 runs (9 centuries, 22 half-centuries)
• 147 ODI- 5238 runs (11 centuries, 34 half-centuries)
• 37 T20- 932 runs (7 half-centuries)

Gautam Gambhir was a part of the 2007 T20 World Cup and 2011 ODI World Cup winning team, he performed brilliantly in both the tournaments. Gambhir scored 75 runs in 54 balls in the 2007 T20 World Cup final. Gambhir scored 97 runs in the 2011 ODI World Cup final when two big wickets in the form of Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar fell early.

Under his captaincy, Gautam Gambhir made Kolkata Knight Riders win the IPL title twice (2012 and 2014). Gambhir played for KKR and Delhi Capitals in IPL, scoring 4217 runs in a total of 154 matches.

Gautam Gambhir Coaching Career

In October 2018, Gautam Gambhir completed 10 thousand runs in his List A cricket in Vijay Hazare Trophy. After this, he announced his retirement from all formats of cricket on December 3, 2018. In 2022, Lucknow Super Giants appointed him as a mentor. In 2024, KKR made him a mentor, this year KKR won the trophy under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer.

On July 9, 2024, BCCI appointed him as the head coach of the Indian men’s cricket team. Under his captaincy, India won the ICC Champions Trophy title this year. Last month itself, with Gautam Gambhir as the coach, India also won the Asia Cup trophy.

Married to Natasha Jain in 2011

Gautam Gambhir married Natasha Jain in 2011, both their families already knew each other. Gautam Gambhir currently lives in Rajendra Nagar, Delhi. Recently the entire Indian cricket team had come to his house for dinner.

Gautam Gambhir’s net worth

Mykhail, in its report citing Times of India, put Gautam Gambhir’s net worth at around Rs 265 crore (by 2024). Let us tell you that he has also been an MP from East Delhi (2019-2024). In 2019 he was honored with the Padmashree Award.

Gautam Gambhir, the current head coach of the Indian cricket team, is known for his impeccable style. In his days, he was called a player of big matches. The innings of 75 runs in the final of the 2007 T20 World Cup and 97 runs in the final of the 2011 ODI World Cup helped India to register a historic victory. Now a figure has come out, which is enough to surprise the cricket world. Actually, the topic of discussion here is the number of sixes put in international cricket by Gautam Gambhir.

Gautam Gambhir played 242 matches for India in an international career of about 13 years, in which he was able to hit only 37 sixes. He sent 10 in Tests, 17 in ODIs and 10 times in T20 cricket to the ball across the boundary. He used to play cricket of serious aggressive style, but he was never known for hitting power, which is why he was able to hit only 37 sixes in 242 international matches, but the number of fours he has imposed is 1,188.

Less sixes than Muralitharan

It is true that Gautam Gambhir has hit less sixes than Muttiah Muralitharan in international cricket, who was a bowler by profession. Great spin bowler Muralitharan batting in most of his career in 9, 10 and 11th order. Despite being a bowler, this Sri Lankan veteran hit 41 sixes in his international career. This figure of Muralitharan is also special because he is not an all -rounder but a completely bowler.

Let us tell you that Gautam Gambhir is currently targeted by critics. While his head coach, India’s white ball teams have performed well, but they have not been able to leave much impact on Test cricket. Rahul Dravid’s under India remained the world’s number-1 Test team for a long time, but it cannot be denied that the victory in Gambhir’s under one Test match seems to be like a big achievement.

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