Achi news desk-
Speaking at an event at the team hotel a few days ago, the usually reticent Gambhir revealed: “He (SRK) told me only the same thing he told me when I joined KKR as a player in 2011: This is your franchise. , make or break it. He told me exactly the same thing. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I can assure you that whenever I leave this place, I will be in a much better position.”
No wonder Gambhir has a prominent presence around the city with pumping fists, in the billboards along with captains like Shreyas Iyer, Mitchell Starc, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh & Co. This is the kind of rock star treatment even Sachin Tendulkar has not received during his years of mentorship at Mumbai Indians – and the only other person who can match such adultery is Mahendra Singh Dhoni if never took over as a mentor to the Yellove.
We must wait for the season to develop to find out if ‘GG’, as he is nicknamed, can make the change in the Knights’ fortunes as he did as a player. His arrival has effectively sidelined veteran Chandrakant Pandit, the man with an impressive CV as India’s domestic cricket coach, but then that’s IPL for you – where nothing succeeds like success!
