In today’s IPL 4 auctions, Delhi and India opening batsman Gautam Gambhir was sold to the Kolkata Knight Riders for a record USD 2.4 million. Gambhir is being paid this massive amount to play for 6 weeks later in this year’s edition of IPL (Indian Premier League).

Gautam Gambhir (born 14 October 1981, in Delhi) is an Indian opening batsman. He has been a member of the Indian national cricket team since 2003 (ODIs) and 2004 (Tests). Gambhir had been a prolific run-scorer in domestic cricket with an average of over 50 but his two successive double-hundreds in 2002 (one of them against the visiting Zimbabweans) made him a strong contender for India’s opening slot.

He became only the fourth Indian batsman to score a double century in a tour game at home; the previous three being Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Sachin Tendulkar. He is the only Indian batsman to score more than 300 runs in four consecutive Test series.

He is also the only Indian, and one of only four international cricketers, to have scored five hundreds in five consecutive test matches.[1] On July 2009, for a period of ten days he was the number one ranked batsman in ICC Test rankings.