Gambhir’s has been an eventful career, which fetched him 4,154 runs in 58 Tests, 5,238 in 147 ODIs and 932 in 37 T20 Internationals. His grand aggregate of 22,484 runs—10,324-plus runs in List ‘A’ matches—makes him the second Indian behind Sachin Tendulkar (24,452). But the Delhi cricketer’s philanthropic activities, under the Gautam Gambhir Foundation (GGF) equally define the man. He’s sponsoring the education of 50 children of CRPF personnel killed in action; bearing the education expenses of Zohra, daughter of a Kashmir cop who was killed in a shootout with militants last year; donated Rs 4 lakh to the crippled Ice Hockey Association of India for sending the team to a tournament to Kuwait in 2015; helped cancer-stricken 1998 Asian Games gold medallist boxer Dingko Singh and organised a-meal-a-day community kitchen in Delhi. If one is only aware of his belligerently patriotic tweets, there is context and ‘action’ behind them. “If there are selfless people in India, they are soldiers. They are the real heroes. That’s why I am fascinated by the uniform,” he emphasises.