All through his profession, Gautam Gambhir has had a few fights on the field with players of the restriction group. In the beginning of his vocation, he had a quarrel with Andre Nel. He additionally had on-field altercations with players like Shane Watson, Simon Katich, Kamran Akmal, and Shahid Afridi.
In an ongoing communication, the previous Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir uncovered a standout amongst other sledging stories. During a show, he was asked, “Who did you appreciate sledging the most?” To this, the Delhi batsman took the name of previous Australia skipper Ricky Ponting.
The previous opener reviewed an episode that had occurred in 2008 during the Border Gavaskar Trophy in India. Gambhir uncovered that Ponting attempted to incite him by saying something during the primary Test in Bengaluru.
“To be completely forthright, you have been a rabbit,” when Gautam Gambhir reminded Ricky Ponting about his record in India
“Ricky Ponting, perhaps. That was in 2008 when Anil Kumble was the chief. In the arrangement when I got my twofold hundred. In the main Test coordinate, I think it was in Bengaluru, he said something when I was batting,” the 38-year-old recalled, during a Star Sports show Cricket Connected.
The Delhi batsman reviewed how he gave a savage answer to the then Australian skipper. “He was at senseless point, and he said ‘you haven’t set some major changes in motion’. I said ‘Neither have you in India. To be completely forthright, you have been a rabbit’. His record says that too, he’s been a rabbit in India,” Gautam Gambhir further included.
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Ponting really has an extremely poor record in India with the bat in Tests. He has scored just 662 runs in 14 Tests at a normal of 26.48. His profession normal was 51.85. The Tasmanian batsman had his battle against turn which prompted his horrendous record in India. He scored just a single century in India. Strangely, that lone century came in the Bangalore Test against India in 2008.
His captaincy record was additionally not acceptable in India. Australia has never dominated a Test game under the captaincy of Ricky Ponting in India. India even won the Border Gavaskar Trophy in India in 2008 by a 2-0 edge. Gautam Gambhir got a brilliant twofold ton at his home ground in Delhi in the third Test.