Gautam Gambhir has never shied away from giving controversial opinions. Due to this reason, he has often been the target of trolls. He has always been against hero worship in the Indian team. On Monday, Gambhir again became the talk of Twitter after he labeled Yuvraj Singh 'best white-ball cricketer' while wishing the latter.
Gambhir took to Twitter to extend birthday wishes to Yuvraj Singh. He captioned
the post, Happy Birthday to the best white-ball cricketer India has ever
produced! @YUVSTRONG12. It is evident that Yuvraj played a major role in the Indian
team’s 2007 and 2011 World Cup victories. In total, he scored 11,778 runs, out
of which 9,878 runs came in the white-ball formats.
Earlier as
well, the 41-year-old remarked that Yuvraj was in the best touch in the 2011
WC, wherein his mental toughness and performances in crunch moments helped them
to seal the game against Ireland and Australia. Yuvi scored 362 runs and
scalped 15 wickets and emerged as the best all-around performer in the showpiece
event.
Although
the fans know Yuvraj’s contributions, they replied by posting two-year-old
tweets of Gambhir, in which he sent birthday wishes to Rohit Sharma, and designated
him as the “best white-ball cricketer in the world.”
Other fans mentioned insecurity of Gambhir to praise Virat Kohli, who is the second-highest run-scorer for India in ODIs and T20Is, with 12471 runs and 4,008 runs, respectively. Other fans also mentioned that MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar are the deserving candidates for being the greatest white-ball players.