Srinagar: Former India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has lashed out as youngster Shubman Gill for throwimg his wicket away in the first Test vs England.
Shubman Gill on the Day 2 of the Test at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium after doing all the hard work to bat till stumps on the first day and getting through the difficult first hour on Day 2, threw away his wicket. He also became the maiden Test wicket for debutant England spinner Tom Hartley.
On the fifth ball of the 35th over, Hartley tossed one up on Gill’s pads. The right-hander played a wafty slap, which was neither an attempt to go over the top nor a convincing way of turning the strike over. He was out caught at mid-wicket. After playing 66 balls and scoring 23 runs with the slowest strike rate among all batters that have gone past the 20-run mark in this Test, Gill gift-wrapped his wicket to England.
“What kind of a shot was he looking to play? One can understand if he was looking to play it in the air but it was just a badly executed on-drive. He did all the hard work and then played a shot like that,” said Gavaskar in commentary.
In his 37 innings, there have been 10 occasions when Gill has crossed the 25-mark without reaching a half-century.
