For 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 the India Green cricket team in the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy in 2011.
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 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.
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.