While Shubman Gill was one of the year’s most notable performances in the first half, things didn’t turn out the way he had hoped in the second half. Shubman Gill had an incredible start to 2023 after making his first century in a Test match against Bangladesh in December 2022. The Punjab batsman amassed his first T20I century in February and his first ODI double-century in January against New Zealand. As Shubman Gill demonstrated why he is regarded as one of the future stars of world cricket, records continued to fall.
Shubman Gill showed impressive consistency in the ODI format throughout the year, but his results in T20Is and Tests fell short of his promise. Shubman Gill’s next assignment for India in the shortest version of the game came in the Caribbean following the T20Is against the Kiwis. He only managed 102 runs in five games, with 77 of those coming in a single inning. After receiving a rest for the Twenty20 International versus Australia, he played two Twenty20 Internationals in South Africa last month, with scores of 0 and 8.
He did, however, rejoin the team for the current Twenty20 International Series against Afghanistan. He hit a brilliant 23 off of 12 balls in the opening Twenty20 International, but Yashasvi Jaiswal was benched for the second match. Salman Butt, a former captain of Pakistan, claimed that Gill had fallen short of expectations and gave advice on how to succeed.
“In my opinion, Shubman Gill’s performance in the last several games has been underutilized. He is too skilled and too good of a player for the level of urgency he has been displaying. After scoring about twenty, he plays a loose shot. When he had a prosperous year, he wasn’t doing this. All he needs to do is keep batting; nothing exceptional needs to be done. He must understand that you cannot play every ball on your terms, no matter how great you are as a batter. Instead of controlling the ball, you have to respond to it, Butt was cited by Hindustan Times as saying.
In T20Is, how are Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal doing thus far?
Gill has scored 335 runs at a strike rate of 147.58 and an average of 25.77 in 14 Twenty20 Internationals. He has accumulated one hundred and fifty years of life. Jaiswal, on the other hand, has scored 498 runs at an average of 35.57 with a strike rate of 163.82 from 15 innings. The southpaw took full advantage of his opportunity in the second Twenty20 International, smashing a brilliant 68 off just 34 balls. The Mumbai hitter has scored a century and four fifties.
It appears that Gill will have to wait a while to make a return to the playing XI with the return of veterans like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma as well as Jaiswal’s outstanding form. With one game remaining, India has already won the three-match Twenty20 International series against Afghanistan. The last Twenty20 International is scheduled for Wednesday, January 17, in Bengaluru.
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