Following the harrowing 184-run defeat to Australia in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Monday, India captain Rohit Sharma said that batter Shubman Gill missed out from the XI only due to the team’s specific requirement of bowling combinations and batting de “The chat with him was that clearly he was not dropped. We just wanted to have that extra bit of cushion in the bowling and hence we opted for an all-rounder, which shouldn’t weaken our bowling line-up. Compromising a batter for a bowler was not something I wanted to do, we wanted to bat as deep as possible, and along with that have a bowling attack which could take 20 wickets, you know, so we considered everything and we ended up compromising him unfortunately,” Rohit said in the post-match press conference. Gill, who had scores of 31 and 28 in the Pink-Ball Test in Adelaide, fell for 1 in the previous outing in Brisbane. Having not struck a half-century outside Asia since his last tour to Australia in 2020-21, …