5 things you may not have known about birthday boy Gautam Gambhir

#2 He was the “Bad Boy of the Year” in 2015

Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli had an ugly verbal spat during an IPL match

The 2011 World Cup hero was the worst behaved player of the year 2015, according to BCCI’s list of “state of Indian domestic cricket.” The list included 110 players who were fined for misconduct on the field.

Gambhir was fined 70 per cent of his match fee for threatening to beat up Bengal’s Manoj Tiwary during a Vijay Hazare Trophy match at the Feroz Shah Kotla.

He has been previously involved in many on-field spats, including the famous Kohli-Gambhir IPL argument. The latest report of Gambhir’s misconduct came from an IPL 2016 game between KKR and RCB where the KKR skipper furiously kicked a chair in the dugout in a fit of extreme happiness when his team won.

But what happens on the field, remains on the field!