‘High risk, high reward’: Gautam Gambhir reveals mantra behind India’s T20 World Cup triumph | Cricket News
3 min readMar 9, 2026 01:07 PM IST India outclassed New Zealand by an enormous 96 runs victory on Sunday in the final of the T20 World Cup to bag the title for the second consecutive edition and third time overall. The achievement held great personal meaning for the head coach, Gautam Gambhir, who became the first individual to have both played and coached a T20 World Cup-winning side, having helped India to lift the inaugural ICC Men’s T20 World Cup trophy in 2007. Reflecting on the mantra of his T20I side after the final, Gambhir said: “The plan was very simple. I always believe that high risk, high reward is the only way to play a T20 format, and you don’t fear losing a game of cricket to win one.” “If you start fearing defeat, you will never win. I told the captain that we will not play a match of 160-170. I would rather accept getting all out for 100 because scores of 150-160 take you nowhere,” he added. Despite losing heavily to …


