Shubman Gill will play his first home Test series against England.
Young Indian batsman Shubman Gill took to Test cricket like fish to water when he made his Test debut in Australia recently and scored 259 runs in 6 innings at an average over 51. He will be happy to be coming back to India to extend his purple patch with the bat in Test cricket.
However, former Australian spinner Brad Hogg has found a chink in Gill's armor and has warned him against playing on the off-side. Hogg has a problem with the youngster’s trigger movement where he shuffles early on the off-stump and tends to play the deliveries outside off away from his body.
Hogg said on his YouTube channel, “There is only one little chink in the armor that he (Gill) has got to work on, that is getting back and across and covering the off-stump when the ball is moving away and has got a little bit of an extra bounce.”
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“He tends to play away from his body. Of course, he continues to play away from his body, he is going to come up short and he is going to feed those slips and he is going to find a little bit of trouble. If he can't get back and across, he has to learn to leave the ball early outside off-stump,” he added.
The 21-year-old plays classic textbook drives through the off-side and the newly found weakness in his technique might want him to tinker with his off-side play.
The fact that he tends to play away from his body was exposed in Australia as well but it didn’t edge much into the slips down under, he most likely will not do that here in his home country as well.
India will face England in the first Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai from Friday, February 5.