Janpukar News/ Sudhanshu Rokka
The troubled Shubman Gill, according to former India captain Anil Kumble, has been given the kind of “cushion” that veteran Cheteshwar Pujara never received. The young batter must perform well in the second Test against England or else he would be under a lot of pressure.
In his last 11 Test innings, 24-year-old Gill has not scored a half-century. In March last year, he made a century-plus score in India’s first innings against visiting Australia in Ahmedabad, but since then, his best score has been 36.
In the first Test match in Hyderabad against England, which India lost by 28 runs on Sunday, Gill scored 23 and 0 in the two innings.
After his last Test match, which was against Australia in the World Test Championship final in June 2023, the 36-year-old Pujara was ignored. Earlier last month, he made a double hundred (243 not out) in a Ranji match.
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