Shubman Gill is currently India's designated No. 3 batter in Test cricket. However, he failed miserably in the recently concluded Test series against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
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“I’ve always maintained that Shubman Gill is an overrated cricketer but nobody listened to me. He is a highly overrated cricketer,” Srikkanth said on his YouTube channel.
“When Gill is getting this much of a long rope, some people might wonder whether even players like Suryakumar Yadav could have been given a longer rope in Tests,” Srikkant argued.
Suryakumar Yadav has played just one Test in his career, against Australia in 2023 in Nagpur. He scored just 8 runs in the only innings he batted but India went on to win the match by an innings and 32 runs.
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“Ruturaj Gaikwad, for example, has been doing wonderfully in first-class cricket. But they’ve not bothered to pick him. Meanwhile, someone like a Sai Sudharsan has been lighting it up in ‘A’ tours. You have to promote these kind of talents. Instead they are running around circles by picking Gill,” Srikkanth observed.
“(Shubman) Gill is right now surviving because he gets ten chances and scores on the tenth chance after nine failures. And because of that, he is getting another ten chances to succeed," Srikkanth noted.
Shubman Gill's decline outside Asia
Shubman Gill scored 93 runs in three Tests at an average of 18.60 in the recent Test series against Australia. He registered scores of 13, 20, 1, 28, and 31. He had a good start to his Test career as he was impressive in the last Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.
Gill scored a crucial 91 in India's historic win at Gabba. However, he has struggled to score runs outside Asia since then. Gill averages just 17.64 across the 18 Test innings since that series.
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