The former Indian all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri has made a huge statement on star Indian youngster Shubman Gill. Shastri believes that the star batter of Gujarat Titans Shubman Gill has the potential to surpass Virat Kohli’s record for the highest number of runs scored in a single season of the Indian Premier League.In IPL 2016, Kohli was on a dream run and scored 973 runs which included four centuries.
RCB also reached the final where they lost the decider against Sunrisers Hyderabad under David Warner’s captaincy.Shastri reckons that only opening batters have an outside chance to break Kohli’s record. According to him, if Gill carries his momentum and scores big in 3-4 games he can make it to Virat Kohli’s record.While talking to star sports Ravi Shastri said, “I feel it is Subhman Gill because he is in good form and also because he plays top of the order.
The pitches are good, so if he can score 80-100 runs consecutively in two or three innings, then at that point of time only he will already have 300-400 runs.”He further added, “According to me, it is very difficult to break the record, because 900 plus runs are huge but one thing is opening batsmen will get two extra matches and two extra innings, so opening batsmen can only break this record if it is possible.”
