Shubman Gill finally made it large in his new position in Test cricket. The Indian prodigy, who was having underwhelming outings at quantity three, received his maiden fifty-plus rating and transformed it into 100 in the course of the second Test towards England in Visakhapatnam.
Gill had performed 10 innings at quantity three earlier than this Test after starting his profession opening the innings. Looking at his kind in ODIs in 2023, followers and cricket pundits anticipated him to shine in the new position shortly however his outings didn’t do justice to these expectations. Now he finally will get that large knock at quantity three.Â
He is the primary Indian to attain a Test century at quantity three in India since 2017. Gill started batting at quantity three because the West Indies tour. He performed 5 Tests in the new position earlier than this recreation in Visakhapatnam. However, his earlier outings in these Tests learn 6, 10, 29*, 2, 26, 36, 10, 23, 0, 34. He used to all of the sudden look out of contact. But this innings would assist him large approach in regaining his confidence. However, the 24-year-old fell to Tom Hartley for 104 when he tried to reverse-sweep the left-arm spinner solely to get his gloves with the ball settling into wicket-keeper Ben Foakes’ palms.
Gill was fortunate to start out his innings. He was given out LBW in the beginning off Tom Hartley however the batter despatched it upstairs to have a second have a look at it. As it got here out, he had a faint edge on the ball earlier than it hit his pads.
India’s Playing XI:
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Rajat Patidar, Srikar Bharat (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mukesh Kumar
England’s Playing XI:
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson
More to observe…
