Brisbane [Australia], December 13 (ANI): Forward of the third Check towards Australia at Brisbane, star India batter Shubman Gill took a jab at Australian skipper Pat Cummins for his feedback about using the short-ball tactic towards the guests, questioning Australia’s general success in utilizing it towards Indian batters.
The third Check of the sequence is ready to start on Saturday on the Brisbane Cricket Floor. Following a powerful 295-run defeat towards the guests at Perth’s Optus Stadium–where standout performances from Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, and Yashasvi Jaiswal have been on display–the hosts bounced again strongly. Distinctive bowling efforts from Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins, mixed with a counter-attacking century from Travis Head, secured Australia a dominant 10-wicket win as they chased down a modest goal of 19 runs.
India will arrive in Brisbane with a bonus, because the final time they visited in 2021, an inexperienced Indian line-up led by Ajinkya Rahane handed the Aussies their first defeat on the venue in over 32 years, sealing a 2-1 sequence win. Earlier this 12 months, the West Indies additionally registered a outstanding victory on the similar venue, because of an outstanding seven-wicket haul from Shamar Joseph throughout a pink-ball Check.
Forward of the match, Cummins hinted at utilizing the short-ball technique throughout the pre-match press convention.
“Sure, doubtlessly. It labored out within the Adelaide Check. It’s all the time at the back of your thoughts as a little bit of a Plan B, or whether it is wanting actually uncomfortable and more likely to take wickets, possibly it turns into Plan A for among the batters,” Cummins had mentioned.
Gill responded by noting that this tactic had not yielded important outcomes towards India’s top-order batters.
“I believe, aside from the tail-enders, just one batsman has been out on the quick ball. So, I have no idea what success he’s speaking about,” mentioned Gill throughout the pre-match presser.
The younger batter additionally took a second to congratulate Indian chess prodigy D Gukesh, who on Thursday grew to become the youngest-ever World Chess Champion after defeating China’s Ding Liren within the last recreation of their FIDE World Championship match.
“I simply need to congratulate him on behalf of the whole Indian cricket group. To turn out to be a world champion, and the youngest one ever, is a good feat in itself,” mentioned Gill.
Gill additional talked about that the Indian batting unit goals to place up substantial first-innings scores.
“As a group, as a batting group, we want to put up an enormous complete first up. This has been one among our key discussions. Each batsman could have his personal recreation plan, however collectively we would like an enormous first-innings rating,” mentioned Gill.
With the sequence now degree at 1-1, Gill emphasised that the group sees the remaining matches as basically a three-match sequence.
“If we win this match, then I believe we’ll have the higher hand heading into Melbourne and Sydney,” he added.
Australia squad: Pat Cummins (c), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk), Brendan Doggett, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Nathan McSweeney, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster.
India squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar. Reserves: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed, Yash Dayal. (ANI)
