Shubman Gill with Darshan Nalkande (Credit: BCCI)
When questioned about his number of Darshan Nalkande to bowl the final over, over the skilled Umesh Yadav, Gill backed the teen and praised him for his efforts to this point this season.
When the going will get robust, the robust get going. Well, Shubman Gill will maintain onto these phrases of power as GT suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Pinjab Kings, with one ball remaining, tonight on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Gill lastly discovered his kind as he scored his first fifty of the IPL 2024 marketing campaign and led his group tonight with a swashbuckling captain’s knock of 89* as he stood until the very finish.
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With the assistance of quickfire cameos, particularly from the likes of Sai Sudharsan, who chipped in with a blazing 33 from simply 19 balls, and Rahul Tewatia on the finish, Gill helped arrange his group’s difficult whole of 199 runs.
But, ultimately, it might all show to be too little as Punjab, beneath the steering of Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma, would clinch a stellar last-over win over the hosts.
After the match, Gill mirrored o the loss and acknowledged that it was their sloppiness on the sector which in the end value them the win.
“I think a couple of catches went down, never easy (to win) when you drop catches,” acknowledged Gill.
“Bowlers did a decent job, when the ball is coming on to the bat, it’s difficult to defend, I wouldn’t say we were short (on runs). The new ball was doing something. 200 was good enough. We were right in the game till about the 15th over. always under pressure with dropped catches.”
When questioned about his number of Darshan Nalkande to bowl the final over, over the skilled Umesh Yadav, Gill backed the teen and praised him for his efforts to this point this season.
“With the way he’s (Nalkande) bowled in the last match and with 7 runs to go, it was a no brainer for us. People who you haven’t seen will come and play knocks like these and that’s the beauty of IPL,” exclaimed Gill.
