‘This is the best batting lineup I have been part of’- Shubman Gill on India’s Champions Trophy team

Shubman Gill, India’s opening batsman, thinks the team’s current Champions Trophy batting lineup is the greatest he has ever seen. Gill claims that this batting unit provides a degree of flexibility that the previous Indian teams did not have because it features two of the best ODI batters in the top three, a deep batting order that reaches No. 8, and the majority of players already making runs.

“I have never been a member of a better batting order than this one. The greatest one-day players of all time are Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. One of the greatest openers in white-ball cricket is Rohit bhai, and I doubt I need to say anything more about Virat bhai. He is among the greatest ODI hitters of all time. At the pre-match news conference, Gill stated, “I’m lucky to be batting between them, and then we have Shreyas Iyer in great form, followed by KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, and Ravindra Jadeja.”

In this event, Dubai has notably not been a high-scoring field. Each member of the Indian team’s top seven has scored at least forty runs or more. In four games, Jadeja, ranked eighth, has only been called upon twice.

Shubman Gill thinks the top order has been able to play more freely because of this depth.

Our batting depth allows us to bat with greater freedom. The top order had to assume greater responsibility and bat longer earlier because we lacked depth. But now that we have good batting to follow, we can express ourselves,” Gill said.

In India’s opening match against Bangladesh, Gill, who amassed an incredible 101, reassured that batting freely does not always entail taking chances. Rather, he concentrates on playing intelligent, targeted cricket.

“I don’t prepare my shots in advance. Everything is instinctive. When I bat, I evaluate the necessary target and the conditions. Then, as a buffer for the bowlers, I add 15 to 20 runs,” Gill continued.

Gill prefers to concentrate on the details and believes that training should be as intense as a match.

Boundaries are easier to hit, but rotating strikes under pressure are more difficult. In order to stay in my zone during games, I concentrate on the little nuances throughout practice.