Former India opener Virender Sehwag offered a word of advice for Gujarat Titans star Shubman Gill. Gill recently lost his place in the India squad for the T20 World Cup, being named in the reserves. It is a hard pill to swallow, but Sehwag has backed Gill to comeback stronger.
As Sehwag discussed in-depth Shubman Gill‘s lack of run-scoring, Sehwag referred to players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, and VVS Laxman and recalled his own playing days.
Sehwag’s wise words for GT skipper
“I think he’s lucky that his name is in the T20 World Cup reserves. KL Rahul and Ruturaj Gaikwad are not even in that. That’s a good point and he should be motivated by that. Next time, he should not let his place go once he gets a chance. He should focus on scoring runs at a good strike-rate so he doesn’t get replaced,” Sehwag said.
“In my days, we had Ganguly, Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman. It doesn’t matter how many runs the other guys scored, these guys didn’t go out because they never stopped scoring runs. How will you drop them if they keep scoring runs? They never gave a reason to get dropped. This is what Shubman Gill has to learn. Once he returns to Indian team and plays regularly post the World Cup, he shouldn’t let such an opportunity arise again. Improve your skills and score big, because big scores will eventually save you,” said Sehwag further.
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Inconsistent Gill in IPL 2024
In the current IPL 2024, Shubman Gill has had erratic performances. Although the star opener had a great start to the season, in the last few games he has struggled to score runs; his last 50+ score occurred on April 10 against the Rajasthan Royals. Since then, Gill has three times fallen short of double digits.
Along with Rinku Singh, Avesh Khan, and Khaleel Ahmed, the opener was included in the four-man reserves list but was not included in the T20 World Cup squad.
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