Delhi: For the last few years, one member has been connected to the Cricket Selection Committee of India in an unofficial way. It is working from outside, but every information is not there, the effect on its own vote is so much that the voting can be changed, that is, who is in the team and who is not in the team, or in the same way, the attitude on the question of who became the captain. The name of this member is media and especially social media. Now there was not much time left for the captain’s announcement for the Test series in England, but this member declared Shubman Gill as the new captain of India as his choice. However, till the writing of this report, after Bumrah’s dismissal, the names of Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer are also being taken to challenge Shubman, but this has not reduced the emphasis of advocacy of Shubman. Is Shubman in fact, at this time, is the right contender to become the new captain of India?
The most successful test Indian captain
This discussion does not mean putting a question mark on their talent, but even one cannot deny the truth. In the last 30 years, there have been only two captains who have been the captain of India despite the batting average in SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) in their Test records and are the names of MS Dhoni with 28.37 average and KL Rahul with 29.60 average. Will it be right to add Shubman Gill with an average of 25.70 average? The batsmen who have not yet made their special identity in Tests, on foreign soil, so far that the name is such that he should take the risk of making him a captain?
Record in England:
88 runs in 6 innings of 3 Tests, in which he did not cross 30 even once. When 21 -year -old Pataudi was captained after the injury of the female contractor in the West Indies in 1962, Pataudi always credited the senior of the team to guide him. Which senior will guide Shubman to this team? There is no one. Anyway, how did you think that in England, the 5 Test series will be used as an experiment of his thinking? WTC knows the next round of two -year -old program and play series from England, West Indies, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Australia, and compared to other teams, can you take the responsibility of making captains for the most difficult programs in this most difficult program?
On that, Virat Kohli’s batting on Shubman Gill is also putting the responsibility of advancing the legacy, that is, he is not allowed to relax in the performance with the bat. So will they face captaincy pressure or expect big score with bat? England all -rounder Moin Ali mentioned Shubman’s lack of experience at the test level, on the other hand, due to workload management, Jasprit who supported Jasprit Bumrah is also not seeing him as long term captain.
Shubman’s experience as captain
On the issue of experience as captain, Shubman counts the captaincy of Gujarat Titans in IPL, but thanks to the responsibility of an IPL team, consider him as the right captain for the team playing in the difficult condition of England? Even the best players have been struggling to score runs on the weather and pitches of England. So let Shubman first prove himself to be a top batsman in these conditions. Any wrong result in Test can create such pressure on his batting that it should not happen that India will lose a top batsman in this affair?
After playing 32 Test matches, his average in Test cricket is only 35, made in foreign Tests to 29 and the only 100 out of India in Bangladesh. The truth is that on this record, especially when Test is in England, Shubman’s selection in Test playing XI is not sure. If you become the captain, then it was confirmed to play and if he used any wrong experiment with his number in the batting order, it will also be heavy. It is not easy to play the Duke Red Ball taking a swing in England. There are indications that not everyone in BCCI is supporting Shubman as captain, but the news of Shubman’s meeting with Ajit Agarkar and Gautam Gambhir is saying something else. It is not easy to play an average of 31.54 abroad as an opener and the new Duke ball on it.
That is why R Ashwin has advocated ‘Stop Gap Captain’ instead of making anyone a long term captain at this time and took the name of Ravindra Jadeja in this role. Votes are also increasing for KL Rahul, while Shreyas Iyer is a new name in the media. It is not an easy challenge to resolve this dilemma before the difficult series in England.
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