Gautam Gambhir on hugging Virat Kohli at Chinnaswamy: ‘I believed we will be at the top of the Fairplay table’ | Ipl News

Speaking to R Ashwin on his YouTube channel, Gautam Gambhir in a cheeky has taken a hot against the “Fairplay awards” given in the Indian Premier League (IPL), saying no matter which team he is in, that franchise will always be at the bottom of the table.
The Fairplay award is given to the team for their on-field conduct in the ground during the season and currently, Kolkata Knight Riders are lying at ninth.
“At the end of the IPL season, you’re going to have an IPL trophy in your hand. Would you prefer that or would you be a popular cricket and not have that trophy?” Gambhir asked Ashwin.
Ashwin replied: “I don’t want the Fairplay award.”
“Someone sent me a message a couple of days ago. KKR is where KKR is at the moment. I said yeah. At the top. ‘In fair play?’ I said number 10. ‘Is there a trophy?’ I said, No,” said Gambhir.
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“I still don’t understand. What have we done wrong in the last five games? Probably it’s just because I was sitting in the dugout,” he added.
Citing an example of the Indian school system, Ashwin said the best students always used to get such certificates. He said: “I am sure you would have seen this when we used to go to school like the favourite children in the class would get these incentive cards. Yeah. Like the merit cards, well-behaved cards.”
Gambhir came with another witty reply: Unfortunately, even then I was a backbencher. I was made to sit on the last bench. It’s been going with me since I was a young kid and has continued like that.”
Gambhir feels no matter in what team he is in that respective franchise will never win the Fairplay award and it is something he has failed to understand over the years.
“The moment I am there with any franchise to Fairplay award, we are either number nine or 10. Last year LSG was number nine and KKR is number 10. So if you want a Fairplay Award, stay away from me,” said Gambhir.
Gambhir even touched upon the recent warm hug he shared with Virat Kohli at the Chinnaswamy Stadium and even that didn’t helped the team’s cause.
“Honestly, I believed we will be at the top of the table because of what has happened at Chinnaswamy. I thought, there is no competition, irrespective of where are we on the points table but we got to be at the top of the fair play table. We are still at the bottom of the fair play award,” Gambhir said.
“Probably you need someone else in the dugout because you will never have that Fairplay award till I am there. I have done the best I could, to the best of my ability. Still we are number 10 in the Fairplay award,” he said.
Gautam Gambhir’s KKR will lock horns against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first Qualifier on Tuesday at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
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