“Double Standards”: Gautam Gambhir Faces Huge Backlash Over Social Media Put up

Indian cricket workforce head coach Gautam Gambhir has come underneath loads of hearth on social media following his social media put up promoting a fantasy cricket app. Gambhir took to social media to put up an commercial for Real11 and inside minutes, his followers calling him out for selling a ‘betting app’. “Hopefully, India will continue their domination against Bangladesh in T20Is as well. Enjoy the three-match series with Real11official. Share your opinion in a Yes/No and avail instant cash rewards,” Gambhir wrote on X (previously Twitter). The social media customers referred to as out Gambhir for beforehand criticising former cricketers who promoted pan masala and betting apps and even referred to as it “double standards”. 

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— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) October 12, 2024

Earlier, India all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy mentioned the thought was to tackle the Bangladeshi spinners and credited head coach Gautam Gambhir for reinforcing his confidence after his all-round effort powered the hosts to an 86-run win within the second T20I.

Gautam Gambhir as soon as mentioned “Always been against people endorsing alcohol, tobacco and online betting”

— Now he is selling betting utility. Double requirements.

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India, who had misplaced to Bangladesh the final time these two groups clashed right here, landed in hassle with their prime order blown away contained in the powerplay however Reddy and Rinku Singh joined forces to show the tables on Bangladesh.

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The pair put on108 runs for the fourth wicket from 49 balls to take the sport away from Bangladesh, with Reddy clobbering seven sixes and 4 fours to make 74 from a mere 34 balls.

“The conversation that we were having (was) a smooth conversation, we were not taking any pressure. We did not plan anything about the score. We saw the spinner coming on to bowl, and we thought that this was the main over and we should take him on,” he mentioned in a video shared by BCCI.

“To be honest, I should thank Gautam sir for this. He gave a lot of confidence in me. He told me to believe in my bowling.” “(He said) ‘when you are bowling, you should think like a bowler and not as a batsman who can bowl’. That is what he kept telling me and that somehow boosted me,” he added.

(With PTI inputs)