Gautam Gambhir names Kumble as India's all-time Test XI captain ahead of Dhoni, Kapil

Former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir, who retired from all forms of cricket in December 2018, is into his second innings as a politician. Gautam Gambhir, who is w a Member of Parliament from East Delhi, won Lok Sabha 2019 elections from his constituency by a big margin of 6,95,109 votes, despite being a first-time participant. Gautam Gambhir has often me helines for being straightforward in his opinions wher it is in cricket or or national issues.  southpaw is kwn for his candid nature as he never shies away from speaking his mind.

While speaking in an interaction with Sports Tak, Gautam Gambhir picked his all-time India Test XI.

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Gautam Gambhir picks all-time India Test XI, names Anil Kumble captain ahe of MS Dhoni

Gautam Gambhir picked Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag as his openers. Both Gavaskar and Sehwag were prolific openers as y got team off to positive starts and went on to score 10,122 and 8,586 runs respectively in ir Test careers. Gautam Gambhir picked Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar at .3 and .4 positions in team, which doesn't come as a surprise looking at ir impeccable records. Rahul Dravid scored 13,288 runs in 164 Tests at an aver of 52.31 while Sachin Tendulkar amassed 15,921 runs in a record 200 Tests.

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Gautam Gambhir chose to go with Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni at five and six respectively which forms a formidable batting line-up. former India captain will don gloves for team. India’s first World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev is only all-rounder, who makes a cut into Gambhir's all-time India Test XI.

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spin attack boasts of India's two of most successful spinners in form of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh,  who have given several match-winning performances. On or hand, pace battery is formed by Zaheer Khan and Javagal Srinath.

However, Gautam Gambhir sprang up a major surprise by naming Anil Kumble as captain of his all-time India Test XI. Anil Kumble led India in 14 Tests, winning 3 and losing 5, before eventually calling it quits from international cricket. se stats do t compare much to likes of MS Dhoni and Kapil Dev, who are in Gambhir's team and led India for a longer period of time with much success in both Tests and ODIs. On several occasions, Gambhir has been full of praise for Kumble's captaincy, rating him higher than likes of MS Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly.

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