Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir has resigned from the director role of Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA). According to the source report, Gambhir isn’t happy from this role as he hasn’t got enough freedom.
Gautam Gambhir retired from professional cricket in last December. After that, while he joined in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he also took up the role of director of DDCA. Gambhir is a very busy man in both roles as he is a very straight forward on the social issues.
Gautam Gambhir is unhappy with the rejections on his requests
It was very much expected that Gambhir wouldn’t neglect the issues surrounding Delhi cricket. As a DDCA director, Gambhir brought out some issues and requested to make these better which could help the Delhi players.
However, a close source to Gambhir has recently told that DDCA higher members have rejected Gambhir’s appeals. Gambhir has felt very unhappy on these rejections as he felt that there was a lack of freedom on his role. The former Indian opener believes that a former player knows well which necessary things need to change.
Moreover, he is also busy as a BJP MP who won the Lok Sabha 2019 election from East Delhi. So, Gambhir has decided to resign from the DDCA director post as he is not much effective in this role.
Gautam Gambhir was an active Delhi cricketer till December 2018. He made his international debut in April 2003 and played 58 Tests, 147 ODIs and 37 T20Is. The left-handed batsman scored 4,154 Test runs (average 41.95), 5,238 ODI runs (average 39.68) and 932 T20I runs (average 27.41).
He was one of the heroes during India’s victory in the ICC World T20 2007 and ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. In both the final matches of those tournaments, Gambhir was the highest run-scorer for India. He was also the former no.1-ranked Test and T20I batsman. Gambhir last played for India in November 2016.