NEW DELHI: Legendary Sunil Gavaskar voiced his anger over the shot choice of Shubman Gill in the primary innings of the third Test in Brisbane on Monday. The former India captain urged Gill to ‘depart your picture in the dressing room’ and put the flowery shots in his ‘back pocket’.
Gill chased a supply exterior off stump, taking part in it away from his physique, ensuing in an out of doors edge. Mitchell Marsh pulled off a superb catch at gully off Mitchell Starc’s bowling.
“Leave your image in the dressing room,” Gavaskar stated on Star Sports.
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“Certain shots are dangerous at the start of your innings before you are set, and you don’t have the measure of what the wicket is doing. Keep all those shots in your back pocket. Take them out when you are 30-40- 50 not out, then can you get those shots again,” Gavaskar stated.
“Not very good shot selection, you could say. It was a very good catch, so there was a little bit of bad luck as well over there. But he could have left that ball alone; it would have gone harmlessly to the wicketkeeper, ” he additional added.
Gavaskar additionally urged Virat Kohli to take inspiration from Sachin Tendulkar’s iconic 241 in opposition to Australia in Sydney in 2004, advising him to keep away from taking part in the duvet drive to beat his ongoing struggles with deliveries exterior the off-stump.
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“He (Kohli) only needs to look at his hero, Sachin Tendulkar. The way in which he (Tendulkar) had kept his patience and control on his off-side game, scoring those 241 runs at Sydney,” Gavaskar advised Star Sports.
Kohli suffered one more failure as Josh Hazlewood dismissed him for 3, leaving a struggling India at 51 for 4 at stumps on Day 3, trailing by 394 runs.
