Gambhir’s glowing assessment came after India completed a historic 406-run chase against the West Indies to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match ODI series in Guwahati. It also made India only the second team in the format’s history to successfully chase a 400-plus target, with Gill leading the charge by hitting an unbeaten 223. India head coach Gautam Gambhir believes the most impressive aspect of Shubman Gill’s rapid evolution as the side’s ODI skipper is how he has transformed into a bowlers’ captain, while revealing that he has earned immense respect in the dressing room.
India head coach Gautam Gambhir believes the most impressive aspect of Shubman Gill’s rapid evolution as the side’s ODI skipper is how he has transformed into a bowlers’ captain.
Chasing 406 runs is never easy. Because records are meant to be broken, “I’m not going to talk about his records. Because a lot of times we feel that once you become a captain of two formats, you don’t want your performance to go down, but his performance has only gone up since he took over as captain in England, but I think the responsibility that he’s taken,.
He knows how difficult it is for the bowlers in this format, and once you do that, you will always earn that respect in the dressing room,” Gambhir told JioStar. “And the most impressive thing that I think of him is that he’s becoming a bowlers’ captain. Former India captain and batting legend Sunil Gavaskar also praised top-ranked ODI batter Gill’s composure under pressure and likened his focused approach to that of Sir Don Bradman. “Yes, Shubman is going to be the man who’s going to show the current and the next generation how to bat in what situations, how to keep your cool, how to pace your chase. What we saw in this game was just incredible. “It really was a superb innings, a captain’s innings. He wanted to be, as a captain, right there till the end and finish it himself. That is the hallmark of really great players. And that’s exactly what leadership is all about. Be there right till the end. He deals with every ball as if it’s the first ball that he’s facing. That was the secret of Sir Don Bradman’s batting.
