After a great season in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023, where he played for Team India, starter Shubman Gill has been called the country’s next big star. Gill became the youngest person to win the IPL Orange Cap after he led the Gujarat Titans to the final with 890 runs, including three centuries, in the 2023 season.
In the World Test Championship (WTC) Final at the Kennington Oval in London, India needed a lot from Gill’s bat to beat Australia’s huge first innings score of 469. But on Day 2, Gill was only able to score 13 runs before being clean bowled by Australian pacer Scott Boland. Gill’s shocked response after getting bowled quickly went viral on social media.
Ravi Shastri, who used to be the head coach of India, criticized the decisions of Shubman Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara, who were both sent off for “shouldering arms’ during deliveries. “That’s a bad move because your front foot just crossed over. It should be going toward the ball. He was going to play it and then decide if he should leave it or not. You can see that the off-stump is showing because of how he is leaving it. Even though it’s moving toward the stump, the front foot is still on the middle stump. Look out for that front foot. It needs to be farther out and closer to the ball. He thought it was outside the stump. “I made a bad choice,” Shastri said on TV.
“In England, we always talk about leaving the ball and knowing where your off stump is. This means that you don’t know where your stump is. Shubman Gill isn’t moving his feet as well as he could. He will get better because he is still young, but Pujara will be very sad to see that. It should have been a little closer to the ball and in a different direction. That’s why they keep telling you to know where your off stump is,” said the former India coach.
India finished the second day with 151 for 5, which was 318 runs behind Australia’s first-innings total. Ajinkya Rahane is on 29 and KS Bharat is on 5 when Rohit Sharma’s team needs another 119 runs to avoid the follow-on.
