Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) all-rounder Ramandeep Singh vividly remembers what Gautam Gambhir told him in their first meeting. “On the very first day, he told me ‘you are going to play the entire season’. He told me that I will be batting at No.7 or 8, which will be very crucial and instructed me to prepare accordingly,” Ramandeep tells The Indian Express.
The 27-year-old has walloped 125 runs in just 62 balls, batting either at No.7 or No.8. Gambhir had panned out the roadmap to the finisher’s role and it was not written on a piece of paper or a 20-page pdf from the analysts.