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In every net session, it becomes clear why India believes in Shubman Gul. He plays shots that are so easily considered difficult. It was drawn to a ball that was heading towards his rib cage at the Gabba. He leaned inside the line, just a subtle alignment of his torso, followed by nothing more than a back-foot pivot to get the ball where he wanted it to go.
The eye test in cricket is an early measure of how good a batsman is based on how comfortable they look in the middle. Are they going to the ball, or are they stuck at the crease? Do they rush the standard bowling, or do they actually give it a bit of flavor? Gill has been very good in passing the eye test in this Border-Gavaskar Trophy. But his highest score is 31. This has been happening for some time.
At Birmingham 2022, as India looked to extend their 2-1 lead in the Pataudi Trophy, he opened his innings with some crisp drives, and then pulled Stuart Broad in contempt in front of square. . Each of these shots was an expression of his natural instincts. By letting him take over, he scored 17 runs off 20 balls. By giving them unchecked runs, they were dismissed for 17 off 24. James Anderson hangs one wide of the off-stump, and Gill takes the bat.
Since Gill announced himself nearly four years ago, scoring 91 off 146 balls to set up India’s win at the Gabba, his highest score outside Asia has been 36. During this period, he managed to score only 267 runs in 16 innings in Australia, England. South Africa and West Indies, average 17.80.
He has developed a habit of getting really, really good, and then randomly going out.
At the Gabba, he mustered a wide ball from Mitchell Starc into a packed slip cordon for Mitchell Marsh to take a brilliant catch. India’s score was 6 for 2, and ironically, Gayle attended the pre-match press conference and highlighted how the batsmen were focused on what it took to score big first-innings runs. She was focused on doing even if it had to be done.
Gill once spoke to The Grade Cricketer podcast about how his technique has been able to sustain his journey to international cricket. Even his coaches weren’t convinced he needed to change much.
He would have rattled them all with his attacking shots, which are difficult to play but come naturally to him, especially off the back foot. From this point, it can almost be assumed that other things – boring things like stopping the ball or dropping it – would be in order.
Only the stiff hands he uses to power those impossible shots — pulls, jabs and punches — were causing his downfall when all he had to do was defend.
In limited-overs cricket, the hard hands that took advantage of bowlers trying to catch a line outside the off-stump were giving him trouble in Test cricket. He ended up playing a delivery that he should have dropped. In the WTC 2023 final, he dropped one he should have played. It got confusing. On a Port of Spain pitch where every other member of the top four scored half-centuries, he was caught for 10 runs as he seemed to lack confidence in his judgment of what to play and what not to play. Just played on everything. It bled into another of his strengths – tackling left-arm speed. Until 12 months ago, he had only been dismissed once at an average of 145. In the last 12 months, he has been knocked out by them five times at an average of 13.80.
In 2024, Gayle started the home series against England with a low score, and it felt like his place in the team was in jeopardy. He trained extremely hard – he had kids bowling for him in the nets in Visakhapatnam, and he respected them immensely – and became the second highest run-scorer in five Tests with two crucial centuries. He has described this period as the most important part of his career so far. Preparation and repetition, that’s how Gill likes to work with the challenges he faces. So maybe the more time he spends at No. 3, the better he’ll get. It has been 18 months since he held this position permanently. He doesn’t quite fit in there. His best position may be a step down, but it’s occupied.
Melbourne, the site of the fourth Test against Australia, is likely to offer friendly conditions to the fast bowler again, and Australia will once again try to drag him forward – which he does reluctantly – and play him away from his body. induces Which he does freely – and it is this disconnection that often puts him in danger, as he moves away from his body.
Gill could still get out that way. Batting in the top three has been extremely difficult in this series. But he will want to make it a little harder for the bowlers to take his wicket at the moment.
