Gautam Gambhir has joined the Indian team with an impressive record having taken the Kolkata Knight Riders towards victory recently in the IPL 2024. The former opener is known to be aggressive and tactically smart. He learns that the game of captaincy is a crucial one so he is always geared up to support and believe in Rohit’s decisions rather than overshadowing.

Gautam Gambhir’s Opinion On Working With Captain

“I have always been a big believer when I was playing when I was mentoring that it is always the captain’s team. Because it’s the captain that leads the team on the field. Yes, me and the entire support staff are there to help the team, help the captain in whatever capacity that we can and there will be times when obviously we’ll have disagreements on a lot of things. But then ultimately, the final call will always be the captain’s call because he is the general there,” Gambhir said on Jio Cinema.

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Gambhir-Rohit To Focus On Taking Decisions In Best Interest Of The Team

Gambhir is confident that he and Rohit will make more positive decisions.

“More importantly, our intentions, our intent and our heart are in the right place more often than not, the decisions which we make together will always be in the best interest of the team and they will always be I think we’ll have more good decisions than bad decisions” he added.

Rohit Sharma: A Great Team Leader

“Rohit we all know the kind of leader he is, the kind of human he is, the kind of person he is and I’ve always believed that a good human becomes a good leader. So he’s a great guy, I think a lot of people have, he’s got a lot of respect in that dressing room and that is the first and foremost quality of a leader when you earn that respect not only by your actions on the field but the kind of person you are,” he concluded.

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Rohit has turned out to be a big brother figure for the young players in the Indian team, where everybody gets a chance to contribute and be valued.

Rohit even earns huge respect inside the dressing room, which is one of the qualities to make a good leader, according to Gambhir.