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Coach of the Indian cricket team
Gautam Gambhir is a former international cricketer, former politician, and philanthropist who is the current head coach of the Indian cricket team. He played for India in all formats of the game between 2003 and 2016. He was a member of the 17th Lok Sabha from 2019 to 2024 representing East Delhi constituency from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He received the Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2019, the fourth highest civilian award in India. According to Indian Express he is the 74th most powerful person in India and the most powerful Indian Sportsman in 2026.
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Island region in North Atlantic and Caribbean
The West Indies are an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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Barbadian cricketer
Shai Diego Hope is a Barbadian cricketer, who plays as a wicketkeeper-batsman for the West Indies cricket team. He is also the current ODI &T20I captain of the West Indies cricket team. In June 2018, he was named the Men's Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards. The following year, he was named the CWI ODI Player of the Year. He is generally regarded as one of the best ODI batsmen in the contemporary cricketing world. Hope has also twice been named, for both 2020 and 2022, in the ICC ODI Team of the Year.
More on Wikipedia ↗Gautam Gambhir defended India's bowlers after West Indies chased down 250 in Ranchi, calling for an even bat-ball contest: "Their careers are also at stake."
On Friday night, he remarked that the bowlers' careers are at stake due to the poor parity between bat and ball.
West Indies chased down a total of 250 against India in the second T20I, with six wickets and nine deliveries to spare.