Gautam Gambhir and Shubman Gill not trust their player?Image Credit Source: PTI
Team India is playing a Test series for the first time under the leadership of new captain Shubman Gill. Gill’s captaincy started with a difficult tour like England. In such a situation, what they do, how they take decisions, everyone will have a sharp eye on it. Obviously, due to lack of experience, some of his decisions will also come under question. One such decision was seen on the second day of the Leeds Test, when Team India was looking for a strict wicket but a bowler just kept waiting. These were the bowler- Shardul Thakur.
Indian bowlers continued to beat
Saturday 21 June was the second day of the Test match in Leeds. On the first day, Team India started their batting and went to the second session of the second day and ended his innings. By this time, as captain Gill, Gill got a chance to show his batting only, in which he was also successful. Then his real test started with the second session, when the England team landed for batting. It is from here that everyone wanted to see how they change bowling and how they can put pressure on England.
But only a decision of Shubman Gill as captain within 2 sessions raised questions. In fact, Jasprit Bumrah had taken wickets in the first over for Team India, but after that he had to wait till the 29th over for the next wicket. During this time, except Bumrah, the remaining 3 bowlers- Mohammad Siraj, famous Krishna and Ravindra Jadeja- could not have any special impact. Ben Docket and Oli Pope were continuously scoring runs while batting fast.
But Shardul Thakur kept waiting
In such a situation, when Team India was not getting wickets, the decision of captain Gill surprised everyone. The Indian team included Shardul Thakur as the fifth bowler in this match but still he was not taken off for bowling during this time. Obviously, this was Gill’s first day on the field as captain. In such a situation, the lack of their experienced can be understood. But the eyes of head coach Gautam Gambhir, sitting in the dressing room, were also on the field. In such a situation, he also did not advise Gill that Shardul Thakur should be appointed for bowling?
Gill-Gambhir does not trust Shardul?
This is bound to raise the question whether Gautam Gambhir and captain Gill do not trust Shardul Thakur’s bowling? If there is no trust, was it right to choose in the playing XI? If he was selected for depth in the batting, will Nitish Kumar Reddy not have a better option than this? These questions will continue to arise. As far as bowling is concerned, Shardul Thakur was finally launched for bowling for the first time in the 40th over. But by then the newness and brightness of the ball had reduced considerably. In such a situation, the effect of Shardul Thakur, who has the ability to swing the ball on both sides, was natural and the same happened. Shardul bowled only 3 overs and paid 23 runs in it.
