It is common knowledge that sportsmen tend to relate success with superstition and it has been affirmed by Gautam Gambhir who has been so superstitious through the IPL that he stuck to his routine of keeping his pads on till the very end in every game.

"Now I can be honest and tell you that it was a superstition," the Kolkata Knight Riders captain side after his side's triumph in the fifth edition of Indian Premier League here last night.