As the Kolkata Knight Riders bring home their third IPL title, here’s mentor Gautam Gambhir reflecting on his relationship with “best owner” SRK. 🏏
📹: Kolkata Knight Riders
📹: Kolkata Knight Riders
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00:00I think he's the best owner I've worked with.
00:04So imagine someone as an owner who himself has been such a big achiever, such a great achiever.
00:11Not even talking about cricket or asking you about a single thing.
00:15Your decision making, he trusted your decision making.
00:18Just to show that the perception of Gautam Kambir is wrong, is it possible you can either sing or dance for 5 seconds?
00:33One line, one song.
00:36Let this perception remain.
00:37Shah Rukh Khan will come running.
00:39He'll be so happy.
00:40Shah Rukh bhai didn't even try to make me do it.
00:42And now it's said that only two people who can make you dance are your daughters.
00:47When they grow up.
00:48I said, I don't think so.
00:50Shah Rukh bhai tried a lot.
00:52In fact, he later gave up that I won't say it.
00:55You don't have to do it.
00:56With KKR, we have to talk about Shah Rukh Khan at some point.
00:58So there was a point, Gautam, in 2014 where you went through, we actually mentioned that.
01:03And you switched the batting order and all that.
01:05When you went through a bad patch and then Shah Rukh spoke to you.
01:08It wasn't even a patch.
01:09In fact, I couldn't score a run.
01:11So what worse than that is that a captain starts the tournament with one run in four games.
01:16See, I've said it a numerous number of times.
01:20I think he's the best owner I've worked with.
01:22And the reason why, it's not because I'm not part of the KKR.
01:26I was part of the KKR.
01:27I don't think so.
01:28In seven years of me captaining, we've had a cricketing conversation for seven minutes.
01:33Except that patch, which I was going through.
01:36And also at that time, we had this conversation because I was actually on the verge of dropping my own self.
01:41And the only thing he told me was that,
01:43till you're here, and you will be here till you want to be here, you don't want to drop yourself.
01:48Because I thought that as a leader, I think first and foremost,
01:51I should have the courage to be part of the Playing XI.
01:53I should deserve to be part of the Playing XI.
01:55And in fact, I told him that, that I think it's time for me to drop myself.
01:58And that's the only conversation I have had in seven years with him when it came to cricket.
02:04Where he told me that you will not drop yourself.
02:06Whatever happens, you will play all the games.
02:08And then things turned around.
02:09So imagine someone as an owner who himself has been such a big achiever, such a great achiever.
02:16Not even talking about cricket or asking you about a single thing.
02:21Your decision making, he trusted your decision making.
02:23And I'm not saying that all those seven years I've taken the right decision.
02:26I might have taken some of the worst decisions, the bad decisions.
02:29But never questioned my decisions because that's the relationship.
02:32That's the trust he had on me.
02:34It was a pleasure actually to have an owner like him.
02:36But Gautam, I'll have to stop you there for a second.
02:38Because I've got a text from Shah Rukh Khan saying, in that case, can you please dance to Chhaya Chhaya?
02:43I can go back.
02:45I can go back to my old profession.
02:48I can't.
02:49No.
02:50I can't.
02:51Nothing will make you dance?
02:52Nothing.
02:53Who's the guy who can't stop dancing and basically the crazy guy in the party?
02:58Gautam, you ought to sleep at 11, man.
03:00No, I'm gone.
03:01You're gone?
03:02So what were you doing at the party?
03:03Watching.
03:05Because dancing is not your thing.
03:07I was really scared.
03:08Not in front of the camera.
03:09I was like, okay, no camera.
03:11When we had team parties at that time, Gautam was a bit…
03:15Even after winning?
03:17Yeah.
03:18He's happy about the victory and all that, but he will not really dance.
03:23This is Gautam's command.
03:25Two things.
03:26I will not cook.
03:27I will not dance.
03:28And I will not sing.
03:29Can't sing, can't dance, can't cook.
03:31But can bat?
03:32No, can't bat.
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