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Former Team India cricketer Gautam Gambhir has once again opened up about how in India one player is made a god and the whole team’s performance is not given due importance. Gautam Gambhir said that this is the biggest problem of India’s media and social media. Gambhir said that people remember the 2011 World Cup for the Sixers, but many people had a big hand in getting there. “Leave my innings, how many people remember or talk about Yuvraj Singh’s contribution in 2007 and 2011 World Cup,” Gambhir said.
Gautam Gambhir said on ‘Backstage with Boria’ show, ‘Forget me when I talk about not giving credit to the players… but we didn’t even give Yuvraj Singh the credit he deserved’. Tell me how many people talk about Zaheer Khan’s first spell, which he bowled in the World Cup final, which laid the foundation for India’s victory. So it’s not about the players here, I’m talking about the media, the social media… where the player is made a god. You become so obsessed with one player that you forget about the team, and what the players on the team have done together. If one player could have won the World Cup, India would have won all the World Cups by now. The problem is that we start worshiping one of our players as God. We make them bigger than the game of cricket.
Gambhir continued, ‘Don’t even talk about my 97, people have done bigger feats than that, how many people talk about Yuvraj Singh in the 2007 T20 World Cup. Yuvraj Singh also contributed significantly in the 2011 World Cup. Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Suresh Raina, even Sachin Tendulkar… who was the top scorer in 2011 and scored three or four centuries. We only talk about a six… media always talks about it, people put money on media and social media, I could have done that too, but for me it is important to do something for the country. Do that and if I’ve done it even once, then I think my playing for India has come in handy.