Shubman Gill test career ended as soon as it started, he is scoring runs at an average of 19.22
Shubman Gill Test Career India vs England: Shubman Gill is getting many opportunities one after the other in red ball cricket. But his performance in Test cricket has been below average. Gill has not scored a single half-century in the last 10 Test innings. He has scored 173 runs at a modest average of 19.22. During this period his highest score was 36.
The first match of the five-match Test series being played between India and England is being played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad. In this match, the Indian team batted brilliantly and captured the match. But the form of the team's young opening batsman Shubhman Gill remains a matter of concern for the team.
Shubman Gill is getting many opportunities one after the other in red-ball cricket. But his performance in Test cricket has been below average. Gill faced a lot of difficulty in rotating the strike in this match. He looked a little in rhythm on the first day, but on the second day, he kept playing dot balls continuously and looked uncomfortable in scoring runs. Eventually, he went for a big shot and was out.
Gill struggled and scored only 22 runs on 66 balls. During this period only two fours came off his bat. Gill has been playing at number three in place of experienced batsman Cheteshwar Pujara for some time now. But they have not been able to do anything special till now. Be it a Test series at home or on foreign soil, Shubman Gill's condition remained the same.
Gill has not scored a single half-century in the last 10 Test innings. He has scored 173 runs at a modest average of 19.22. During this period his highest score was 36. If Gill continues to bat like this in the Test, the selectors may drop him from the remaining matches to be played against England.
Gill has played 38 innings in Test cricket so far and has fewer runs than his spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. Gill has scored 1063 runs in 38 innings of 21 Test matches played so far at an average of 30.37. His highest score during this period was 128. Gill has scored two centuries and four half-centuries in his Test career so far.
Gill has scored one century in 15 innings of 9 Test matches played in India and scored a total of 439 runs. It includes 2 half-centuries. His average in India is 31.08, whereas abroad it is 30.37. In 21 innings of 11 matches played so far outside India, he has been able to score only one century and 2 half-centuries. The surprising thing is that in the last 10 innings on foreign soil, he has not crossed the 30 mark even once, let alone a century and a half-century.
