“I am not an emotional person and not many things move me. But this is different. This is back to where it all started. Today, there is a lump in my throat and fire in my heart as I think about slipping into that purple and gold jersey once again\u201d, said Gambhir in a statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Gautam has always been part of the family and this is our captain coming back home in a different avatar as a ‘Mentor’. He was sorely missed and now we all look forward to Chandu [Chandrakant Pandit] Sir and Gautam in instilling the never-say-die spirit and of sportsmanship they stand for, in creating magic with Team KKR,\u201d said Shah Rukh Khan while while welcoming back Gambhir.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) is now welcoming back Gautam Gambhir as the mentor in the team management for IPL 2024. Gautam Gambhir was a mentor of the newly formed team in IPL 2022,\u00a0 Lucknow Super Giants.\u00a0 Gambhir is the only captain who has led KKR towards lifting their 2 IPL titles in 2012 and 2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[296,529],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}