Sold faith for money…Gautam Gambhir got heavy promotion of betting app, fans got angry

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|12-10-2024

The third and last match between India and Bangladesh is to be played in Hyderabad. Before this match to be held on October 12, Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir has promoted a betting app. He asked people on social media to download it. After this promotion of Gambhir, the fans got angry and started criticizing him. What made the fans most angry was that the things for which Gambhir used to criticize other players till yesterday, he himself is doing the same thing today. Many fans tried to show him a mirror by posting his old videos and statements.

Fans took Gambhir's class

Gautam Gambhir has always been against the promotion of companies like tobacco and betting apps. Before becoming the head coach of Team India, he had criticized the players for this kind of brand promotion during many interviews. But before the third match against Bangladesh, he himself promoted a similar app and asked the fans to download it. Because of this the fans got angry. He immediately started taking his classes.

Have criticized Ganguly-Sehwag

Gautam Gambhir, while talking to Indian Express in the year 2022, had targeted the then BCCI President Sourav Ganguly. Without taking names, he had said that 'when the BCCI President also keeps promoting the betting app, then other players of the team cannot be expected not to do the same. He had said that players should not promote alcohol, tobacco, even online betting apps. In an interview with News18, the promotion of pan masala companies by veteran players was called disgusting and disappointing. Let us tell you that many players like Virender Sehwag, Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar were involved in the promotion of such brands.

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