India, March 11 -- Sandeep Patil, the former BCCI chairman of selectors, has revealed that Gautam Gambhir has not spoken to him since being dropped from the Indian team. Gambhir, who was a pivotal figure in Indian cricket between 2006 and 2012 and a member of the two World Cup-winning teams in 2007 and 2011, played his last international match in November 2016. However, his first real exit from the team came in 2013.

In his last 25 ODIs for India, Gambhir scored two centuries and six half-centuries - not bad by any stretch of the imagination - but the selectors thought otherwise and dropped him after the ODI series against England in 2013. Gambhir never played another limited-overs match for India. He featured only sporadically in Tests ...