After Shubman Gill’s poor performances in the third Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, currently being played in Indore, former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh backed this youngster. After stepping in for KL Rahul in the batting order, Gill scored 21 and 5 in the two innings in the Indore Test match.
In difficult situations at Indore, Shubman Gill could not succeed in converting any of his opportunities in either of his innings. In the first innings of the third Test match, India lost by just 109 runs. Shubman appeared solid with his 21 runs in the first inning but could not make it big.
The former Indian spinner has praised Shubman Gill saying that the batter did right by taking an attacking approach against the bowler. Bhajji feels that it was the only way to survive on this pitch.
While talking to star sports, Harbhajan Singh said, “See, the game plan is simple here. You can’t survive on this pitch with defense. Pujara was using his feet throughout his innings. If you’re thinking that you can wait out for a spell and score runs later, it won’t work. Even if you’re playing on 70-80 on this pitch, you can get out with just one odd delivery.”
He further added, “You have to look out for the opportunity to score runs. You need to see where you can get a four. Shubman wanted to go for a six, and when you consider the pitch condition here, his approach was right because you can’t defend on this pitch for long.”
At the end of Day 2, India had just the lead of 68 runs. For India, now Axar Patel(7) is the only hope along with Mohammed Siraj who is there at the crease with 0.
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