Team India's Test captain Shubhman Gill's position is fixed in 2 out of 3 formats, but his place is not fixed in the shortest format. It has not even been included in the Indian team for the 2024 T20 World Cup.
The Asia Cup will also be in the T20 format. Shubhman has not played any T20 for India in the last 1 year, during this time other players have taken it to the top order. In this case, the big question is whether India captain will be in the T20 team in one format?
T20 Form Brilliant
Shubhman Gill may have not played a T20 international match for a year, but during this period he was part of the ODI and Test match in every Indian team. He also participated in the IPL just 2 months ago. Playing for Gujarat Titans, he scored 650 runs last season, scoring 650 runs. Meanwhile, his strike rate was more than 155.
Captain of Gujarat in IPL Shubhman is also the captain of Gujarat Titans in the IPL. He took over the team after Hardik Pandya went to Pandya last year. The team could not make it to the playoffs in 2024, but this year it helped the team to make it to the top-4. However, the team faced defeat against Mumbai Indians in Eliminator.
India also led the T20 team Shubhman did not get a chance in the T20 World Cup last year, but after that tournament, 3 senior India players Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja retired. The next series was again against Zimbabwe, in which Gill was assigned the captain of the team. India also won the series.
After the Zimbabwe series, the team went on a tour of Sri Lanka, where Shubhman was made a sub-captain. This means that management is also looking at it as a captain in the White Ball Format. It is also a sub-captain of the ODI team, with its place fixed. However, when India played a T20 match against South Africa and England, Akshar Patel was made a sub-captain.
Shubhman was rested from a short format team due to a busy schedule in the last 2 series. The Asia Cup final will also be held on September 28, with only 4 days after the team will play the Test against the West Indies from October 2. In which Shubhman will captain. In such a situation, Shubhman can once again be excluded from the T20 in view of the workload.
The place of auspicious is not even determined Shubhman Gill starts innings in the T20 team. When Gill was not part of the team, Abhishek Sharma, Yashwashi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson took over. In this case all three did not disappoint, Samson 3, Abhishek 2 and Yashwashi scored 1 century.
Yashwashi could not be part of the last 2 series due to his busy schedule. During this time, Abhishek and Samson made this place their own. Samson also does wicketkeeping with batting, so his location is considered fixed. Auspicious competition is with Abhishek, Yashwasi and Rituraj Gaikwad. All of them have scored a century for India in T20.
Scored a century in T20 Shubhman Gill has played 21 T20 matches for India. In these matches, he scored 578 runs at a strike rate of about 140. Which includes the century against New Zealand. He played the last T20 match for India against Sri Lanka last year. In this match, he opened with Yashwashi and scored 39 runs. Samson was third in the match.
Winning 2 matches in the first Test series Shubhman first had the opportunity to captain the Test team during the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against England on August 4. In this he scored 754 runs and also won 2 matches for the team. Due to which the series was drawn 2-2.
Shubhman is a permanent member of the ODI team and has played the ODI World Cup as well as the Champions Trophy. If the BCCI is looking at Shubhman as a captain of the team in all three formats, he will also have a chance in the Asia Cup and will be made a sub-captain.
Asia Cup from September 9 This time the Asia Cup of Cricket will be played in the T-20 format from September 9. India has been kept in the group of Pakistan, UAE and Oman. The tournament will be held in the Dubai and Abu Dhabi cities of the UAE. India's first match is on September 10, while the team will clash against Pakistan on September 14.
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