Career
He plays for Karnataka cricket team He is right-handed wicket-keeper-batsman. Foreign nearly five seasons Gautam was a fixture in the Karnataka line-up breaking into the team as a batsman before taking over the gloves from the long-serving wicketkeeper Thilak Naidu.
He represented "India Green" cricket team in the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy in 2011.
He was the second-highest run-getter of the 2012-2013 Ranji Trophy. He was a significant contributor to his team’s success that season.
Promoted to Number. 4 position, he made a total of 943 runs at an average of 117.87, the highest season-tally in Ranji Trophy history by a wicketkeeper.
He then made a second innings 71 to help beat Delhi after having conceded the first-innings lead, before scoring 250-plus scores against both Vidarbha and Maharashtra. He also had 34 dismissals to his name in 2012-2013 Ranji season.
He was rewarded by the national selectors with a place in the India A squad for the warm-up match against the touring Australian team in February 2013. He was also part of Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2011 and IPL 2012, but never got a chance to make his IPL debut.
His impressive batting was rewarded by the Delhi Daredevils who signed a one-year contract with him in 2013.
Daredevils had the services of two other wicketkeepers in Naman Ojha who has played most often for them and Puneet Bisht as well as the part-time keeping of Kedar Jadhav. Before 2014 IPL, he was bought for Rs. 20 lacs by Mumbai Indians.