Click to play videoNew Delhi: After the rousing reception at the Ferozeshah Kotla for the entire team, local hero Gautam Gambhir gets set for a grand homecoming.
Gambhir’s family is busy getting ready for a special home-made welcome.
Seema Gambhir, Gautam's mother, is making rajma chawal — her son’s favourite dish. Although his welcome dinner will be low-key, she says the celebration party can wait for another day. Gautam's family can't stop smiling. Their son has done it again.
"He has made us proud. It feels really good to hear your son being talked about with high regards," Seema says of her son, who topped the batting charts Down Under, eclipsing the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist.
With his exploits with the bat in the one-dayers in Australia, Gambhir has done his chances of a Test recall no harm, having hammered two centuries on his way to scripting a famous tri-series win, the first for India in Australia in the tournament's 29-year history.
With 20 days to go before the series against South Africa, Gambhir still has time to celebrate, and for the reserved 26-year-old who lives up to his name, couldn't have been better than celebrating at home with a doting family.
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