Shubman Gill

So after the crater that Cheteshwar Pujara left, you know, has India finally found a solid number three? because the left-hander who was at judge the player of the series he's great of the back foot like you mentioned a proficient player of spin and he had scores of 167 44 117 and even 140 odd runs in the warm-up game right and In Colombo, I remember after he was dropped at zero, I feel he also showed temperament in his second hundred because he met the lengths between three and five meters largely on the back foot.

And this, when combined with Shubman Gill's front foot preference, made it hard for the Sri Lankan spinners to settle.

You know, they found it difficult against the left and right hand combination.

So, yeah, how do you rate David Padikkal? Is he that number three that we have been searching for?

So should the discussion center more on the execution, the fact that we were not able to follow through on the follow on strategy? Some pundits have suggested that India went on the defensive too soon.

As soon as pressure was applied by the Sri Lankan batters, we became quite timid.

So was the field placement too timid considering we were way ahead in the match? And the second point is that the spinners had very short spells, which is quite characteristic of Shubman Gill's captaincy.

And this probably didn't allow them to keep probing the batters.

Right? Since, you know, maybe five years after his, he debuted.

Well, one guy who really thrived in that role and then moved on to four is Shubman Gill.

Yeah.

Hmm.

No, it can't be that-

Oh, the Shubman Gill one

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if it was.

The Shubman Gill test had some crazy overarching number on how many runs were-

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... made in the match.

Shubman Gill making over 400 in it, of course, in, in all of that, so.

Yeah, I did know that.

Shubman Gill.

Shubman Gill's birthday tomorrow.

So maybe we'll, uh, yeah, exchange birthday texts hopefully with Shubbas.

So I'm sure he's probably got some more exciting birthday plans than the school run, to be honest, but...

I feel if you do one, you gotta commit to everyone you follow.

I know, yeah.

But, you know, you know how to play the game, Shubman Gill.

I feel great captaincy also.

It was a very brave decision to enforce the foul one because I think Shubman thought that that's the only way he can get a victory because especially with the weather, it didn't come through but And by the way, did anybody realize in the first test match, it got over in the second session or something, right, of the fifth day? Had Sri Lanka batted a few more overs, it would have rained off the full day.

Nobody noticed that.

Because it rained cats and dogs during the presentation ceremony.

Okay.

You can't make me more angry than I am already.

Across, and albeit small sample size, but across six test matches for Virat Kohli, five test matches for Rohit Sharma, and five for Shubman Gill, right? Kuldeep Yadav, right? His average hasn't gone...

I mean, 24.04 is his highest average across those three captains.

His technique is brilliant.

And then Captain Shubman Gill also chipped in with a half century.

Of

course he did.

Schlenker was bowled out for 290 in 89.4 overs.

trailing by 214 runs of the follow-on threshold.

Captain Danager De Silva opted to enforce, I mean, sorry, Shubman Gill enforced the follow-on, putting Schlenker back into bat.

Then Schlenker's second innings got forced to follow on for the first time against India in Test history.

It is.

With key figures like Shubman Gill attending, the decisions made here regarding leadership transitions will dictate the entire structural planning for the next major era of Indian cricket.

We end today on a different kind of strike entirely, one involving explosives and a major geopolitical escalation in Europe.

This one feels pulled straight from a spy thriller.

Jadeja, there's whispers that he's maybe not quite as effective as what he was.

And Shubman Gill was turning to the other two spinners a little bit more over him.

which is a really interesting one.

You know, say if Boomer somehow misses that series or misses parts of that five-test series next year, you know, Australia might not fear them in the way that they used to when Ashwin, you know, for the last 15 years, Ashwin and Jadeja have just been an absolute menace on their home wickets and, you know, increasingly towards the end of their careers abroad as well.