File picture of Gautam Gambhir© BCCI/Sportzpics
Nitish Rana paid tribute to Gautam Gambhir on Instagram after Kolkata Knight Riders broke a ten-year drought to win their third IPL title in 2024. Gambhir returned to the KKR dugout forward of the season, taking up the function of a mentor, after two years with the Lucknow Tremendous Giants. His affect has clearly been huge, with Rana hailing him. After two titles as KKR captain in 2012 and 2014, that is Gambhir’s first as a mentor of the franchise.
“On this period of Mamba Mentality, we’re quickly all going to embrace the GG Mentality too,” captioned Rana on Instagram.
Rana additionally shared a screenshot of a dialog with Gambhir relationship again to November 22, 2023, the place Gambhir had spoken about “creating one thing particular” within the season to come back.
Rana has not been the one one to credit score KKR’s success to Gambhir. Earlier within the season, Sunil Narine had additionally spoken about how Gambhir had been instrumental in convincing him to open the batting once more.
Even proprietor Shah Rukh Khan provided a particular because of Gambhir throughout KKR’s post-IPL 2024 Ultimate celebrations, in a video on the workforce’s official YouTube Channel.
“My particular because of GG (Gautam Gambhir),” Shah Rukh mentioned. “I simply have one request… we’ve to make GG dance tonight,” he joked.
Kolkata Knight Riders had been dominant throughout IPL 2024, ending with the very best Web Run Fee (+1.428) in IPL historical past. They bowled out the Sunrisers Hyderabad for a paltry 113 within the last on Sunday night time, earlier than cruising to victory with practically half the innings to spare.
KKR’s resurgence upon Gambhir’s arrival has led to rumours circulating on social media tipping him because the favorite to succeed Rahul Dravid as India’s subsequent males’s head coach. BCCI are but to reveal their last shortlist of candidates.
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