Gautam Gambhir:

Gautam  Gambhir born 14 Octber 1981 is an indian international cricketer He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays domestic cricket for Dehli premier League IPL. He made his one Day international ODI debut against Bangladesh in 2003 and played his first test the following year against Australia.He captained the india team in six ODIs from late-2010 to late-2011 with india winning all six matches.He played an integral part in India's wins in the finals of both the 2007 World Twenty20 75 from 54 balls and the 2011 Cricket World Cup 97 from 122 balls.

Gambhir is the only indian and one of four international cricketers to have scored five hundreds in five conseccutive Test matches .He is the only indian batsman to have scored more than 300 runs in four consecutive test series As of February 2014, he is the highest run-scorer for india in Twenty20 international under Gambhir's captaincy, the Kolkata Knight Riders won their maiden IPL title in 2012 and again in 2014 Fellow indian team-mate Virender Sehwag called Gambhir the best indian opener since Sunil Gavaskar. 

He was conferred the arjuna award India's second highest sporting award, in the year 2008 by the president of india. in 2009, he was the number one ranked batsman in ICC Test rankings. The same year he was the recipient of the ICC Test player of the year award.