London [UK], August 14 (ANI): Former Indian head coach Ravi Shastri believes Indian Check skipper Shubman Gill might be round within the Indian staff for a really very long time.
Gill has been awarded the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month for July 2025 following his heroics in opposition to England within the not too long ago concluded Check collection.
Gill was named Participant of the Sequence, having amassed a staggering 754 runs, averaging 75.40 from the 5 Checks, which included 4 centuries.
This was Gill’s fourth Participant of the Month honour from the ICC, having gained beforehand in February this yr, and in January and September 2023.
In a video on Sky Sports activities’ YouTube Channel, Shastri stated, ‘No query, Shubman Gill he’ll be round for a protracted, very long time as a result of we have seen what sort of collection he is had right here. I feel he is solely 25 years of age, and as you recognize, with this publicity, he’ll get even higher.’
The previous Indian head coach additionally believed Shubman Gill has a regal presence and consists, with the power to play lengthy innings.
‘He is proper up there. He’ll be up there. He is composed. He is very regal. He is acquired that, you recognize, if you have a look at him, he is one thing regal about him. The way in which he bats, he is very straightforward on the attention, very fluent and has the power to play the lengthy innings,’ he added.
The appropriate-hand batter was the standout performer in India’s historic victory at Edgbaston, smashing a colossal 269 within the first innings after strolling in at 95/2, and went on so as to add one other 161 within the second innings to arrange a mammoth 336-run win.
His mixed 430 runs within the match ranks because the second-highest combination in Check historical past, behind solely Graham Gooch’s 456. Gill turned the primary Indian captain to attain a Check double century on English soil, additionally registering solely the second Check double hundred by an Indian skipper exterior India, after Virat Kohli’s effort in opposition to the West Indies in 2016.
He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar’s 221 from 1979 to say the file for the best Check rating by an Indian batter in England. Gill overtook Sachin Tendulkar’s 21-year-old mark of 241 to set the file for the best abroad rating by an Indian batter exterior India and different Asian nations.
Regardless of recording simply 16 and 6 within the Lord’s Check, Gill picked up on his wealthy vein of type at Outdated Trafford, the place his composed second-innings of 103 secured a significant draw, paving the way in which for India’s eventual 2-2 collection end result.
Batting at No.4, he seamlessly blended stability with aptitude, whereas additionally main the aspect with distinction in his maiden collection as captain to presently sit in third spot on the standings within the ICC World Check Championship 2025-27 cycle.
His capacity to show convincing begins into match-defining totals, particularly when early wickets fell, proved essential in sparking a number of Indian fightbacks and was important within the collection ultimately concluding on equal phrases. (ANI)
