Gautam Gambhir denies purposely 'elbowing' birthday boy Shane Watson back in 2008

Gautam Gambhir is one of best batsmen that India has ever produced.  southpaw, who retired from all forms of cricket in December 2018, is w into his second innings of sorts as a politician. Gautam Gambhir, who is a Member of Parliament from East Delhi, won Lok Sabha 2019 elections as a BJP candidate from his constituency by a big margin of 695,109 votes despite being a first-time participant.

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Gautam Gambhir reckons he didn't elbow Shane Watson intentionally

Gautam Gambhir was an animated character on field who always believed in giving it back to opposition. southpaw never shied away from getting into verbal wars with opposition, which is why he used to find himself in middle of several altercations with likes of Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal etc. One of m was infamous skirmish with former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson.

It all happened during third Test match of 2008 Border-Gavaskar series. Gautam Gambhir was arguably in form of his life as he slammed his career-best 206 in match. During kck, Gautam Gambhir elbowed Shane Watson while taking a second run-off his delivery. Prior to incident, both Shane Watson and Gautam Gambhir were relentlessly sledging each or. After match, Gautam Gambhir was handed a one-match ban for breaching ICC Code of Conduct.

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w, Gautam Gambhir has opened up on incident and cleared that he didn’t do that intentionally. While speaking on Star Sports show ‘Cricket Connected’, Gautam Gambhir said that n India coach, Gary Kirsten asked him to accept mistake in front of match-referee Chris Bro. Gautam Gambhir said Kirsten thought Chris Bro might give him an extra sympathy if he accepted his mistakes.

So, Gautam Gambhir went to match referee alongside Gary Kirsten. He ded that Chris Bro asked him if he accepted his mistake? Although Gambhir said yes, he was banned by Bro for his actions.

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Shane Watson birthday

Chennai Super Kings star Shane Watson celebrated his 39th birthday on Wednesday. Shane Watson was often called 'man for big sts' because he h a knack of performing on big occasions. Shane Watson scored a century in semi-final and final of 2009 Champions Trophy and was also Man of tournament in 2012 T20 World Cup. 39-year-old was also judged Player of Match in 2006 Champions Trophy final. Shane Watson was Man of tournament in IPL 2008 and 2013. Shane Watson also scored a stroke-filled century 2018 IPL final.

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