After a century against Australia in Ahmedabad, the talented batter should finally be given an extended run in the Test side
or reasons that are never fully clear, cricket people gush about the aesthetics of left-handers. Left-handed cover drives are better. Left-handed late cuts are more languid. Shubman Gill is the right-handed version of a left-hander. Aside from the odd dismissal like the Indore Test, he makes all his shots look effortless. He is tall, slender, graceful, bending in the breeze, someone made of willow more than the bat that’s in his hand.
Halfway through the third day of the Ahmedabad Test between India and Australia, as the series finale wound its way along in the severest afternoon heat, Cameron Green tried bowling a bouncer. Gill’s pull shot cracked it away. Only for a run, but it brought to mind the pulls that Green had smashed the day before on his way to a century. This run took Gill to 80. In Green’s next over, Gill lashed two in a row through the covers. Soon enough they were both in the hundred club on Indian soil.
Opening the batting for India is a high-jeopardy endeavour.
It should be. From the time of his debut in Australia it was clear that Gill was special. He started usefully: 45 and 35 not out in Melbourne, 50 and 31 in Sydney. His 91 in Brisbane was a game-changer. Gill took on the Australians in the fourth innings before anyone else had done, flashing drives and cross-bat shots, memorably cutting Mitchell Starc for six. He rattled them first. His efforts brought the chase of 328 in reach, allowing Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar to take it home.
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