West Indies vs India: Shubman Gill “Can’t Play T20s”? Ex-India Star Gives His Honest Verdict

Young India batter Shubman Gill was on the receiving finish of some harsh criticism after failing to attain an enormous knock within the first three T20Is towards West Indies. Some had even steered that the younger opener will not be a T20 participant. However, Gill silenced his critics within the penultimate recreation of the sequence, smashing 77 off 47 balls as India gained the sport by 9 wickets. Impressed together with his knock within the fourth T20I, former India wicketkeeper-batter Parthiv Patel hit again at Gill’s critics.

Patel steered that followers and specialists ought to again the participant, as a substitute of attacking him after a number of dangerous video games.

“Shubman Gill was outstanding today. We know the potential of Shubman Gill; we have the tendency of questioning someone who doesn’t get runs. After just a couple of performances here and there, we should not say he can’t play T20s or he can’t play ODIs. We need to keep faith in players and an approach. When you are trying to play attacking cricket, you might get out, especially an opener playing T20 format,” Patel said on Cricbuzz.

After the match, Gill opened up on his type after struggling to attain within the first three matches of the T20I sequence.

“T20 format is like that. When you have 3-4 matches where a good shot is caught by the fielder, and you are eyeing quick runs, you don’t have time to think much,” Gill stated in a video uploaded by BCCI.

“It’s important to go to your basics. You just look at what your template was when you were consistently scoring runs. You have to identify whether you are making any mistake. I felt I wasn’t making a mistake in any of the three matches. But I couldn’t convert my starts,” he added.

Notably, Gill gained the Orange Cap throughout IPL 2023, however Gujarat Titans misplaced the ultimate to Chennai Super Kings.