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‘These are minor hiccups’: Gujarat Titans COO backs Shubman Gill to return ‘stronger’ after T20 World Cup snub | Cricket News

‘These are minor hiccups’: Gujarat Titans COO backs Shubman Gill to return ‘stronger’ after T20 World Cup snub | Cricket News

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Gujarat Titans chief operating officer Colonel Arvinder Singh said that franchise captain Shubman Gill’s exclusion from India’s T20 World Cup squad was just a ‘hiccup’ that accompanies every sportsperson’s life, adding that the 26-year-old batter will be back in the shortest format, stronger than ever. “These are minor hiccups that do happen in any sportsman’s life. He’s already made his stand very clear. He respects the decision of the selectors. And all I can say is, knowing him, he’ll come back even stronger as you can see now in the two games that he’s played. He’ll come back even a better cricketer than what he was you know, going forward,” Singh told PTI in a virtual interaction on the sidelines of the launch of the third edition of Junior Titans programme. Gill, who was drafted in a settled India T20 set up during the Asia Cup as vice-captain, managed just 291 runs in his last 15 matches which played a role in his omission from the squad when it was announced in December last year. …

Shubman Gill breaks silence on getting omitted from T20 World Cup squad: ‘I am where I have to be’ | Cricket News

Shubman Gill breaks silence on getting omitted from T20 World Cup squad: ‘I am where I have to be’ | Cricket News

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India’s Test and ODI captain Shubman Gill has said that he respected the selectors’ decision to omit him from the T20 World Cup squad last month. The 26-year-old, who was made the T20I vice-captain last August, was omitted from the 15-member squad with Axar Patel reinstated as the deputy to Suryakumar Yadav. “I respect the selectors’ decision. All the best to the team for the T20 World Cup. I am where I have to be, and whatever is written in my destiny, no one can take that from me. A player always believes he will try his best for the country, and the selectors have taken their decision,”Gill told reporters before the first ODI against New Zealand. Gill took over India’s ODI captain in October, but has been out of action since mid-November after suffering a neck injury in the Test series against South Africa. The 26-year-old said that it was frustrating to be on the sidelines and watch the team play while being out injured. “Never easy, especially whenever you get injured, watching your …

‘These are minor hiccups’: Gujarat Titans COO backs Shubman Gill to return ‘stronger’ after T20 World Cup snub | Cricket News

‘Shubman Gill is a vice-captain, what is the reason for dropping him…’: Yograj Singh blasts India selectors for T20 World Cup drop | Cricket News

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India’s Test and ODI captain Shubman Gill will be missing the T20 World Cup for the second consecutive time in his career, having been dropped from the squad despite being vice-captain to Suryakumar Yadav. Gill, who scored a total of 291 runs at a strike rate of 137.26 in T20I format last year, remains captain in the other two formats and former India all-rounder Yograj Singh has questioned the move to remove him from the shortest format. “Shubman Gill is a vice-captain. What is the reason behind dropping him? Just because he failed in 4-5 innings? Indian cricketers have had so many players who have barely managed to perform in 10 matches out of 100 opportunities.They still played; you already know the reason why. Young Abhishek Sharma arrived a couple of years ago. If he fails four innings will you drop him as well?,” Yograj Singh said in an interview with Ravish Bisht. Gill, who was part of the Indian T20 team for the Asia Cup last year, had amassed a total of 650 runs …

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and now Shubman Gill: How Gautam Gambhir and Ajit Agarkar consistently rejected star-culture | Cricket News

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and now Shubman Gill: How Gautam Gambhir and Ajit Agarkar consistently rejected star-culture | Cricket News

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The year in which the world took fat jabs and got thinner, Indian cricket also took the revolutionary step of discarding its heavyweights. 2025 will be remembered for Indian cricket taking some very un-Indian cricketing decisions. First, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were told they wouldn’t be needed for Tests. And by the year’s end, just about a month before the T20 World Cup at home; Shubman Gill – the Test, ODI captain, and T20I vice-captain – was dropped. Be it the Kings or the Prince, no one was extended extra-ordinary privileges. Never-ever in India had cricketing royalty been unilaterally treated as commoners. These bolts from the blue were a blow to cricket’s deep-rooted cult of personality. Shubman Gill walks off the field after bowled out by South Africa’s Marco Jansen during the third T20I cricket match between India and South Africa in Dharamshala. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) In a nation deeply ingrained in VIP culture – where rush-hour traffic stands still for cars with beacons, hospitals have dedicated counters and queues for the privileged and …

Sunil Gavaskar reveals advice he gave Shubman Gill hours before being dropped from 2026 T20 World Cup squad | Cricket News

Sunil Gavaskar reveals advice he gave Shubman Gill hours before being dropped from 2026 T20 World Cup squad | Cricket News

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The big news to come out of India’s squad announcement for the 2026 T20 World Cup was Shubman Gill, vice-captain of the squad in the matches towards the end of this year, has been dropped from the squad. Axar Patel has been reinstated as Suryakumar Yadav’s deputy and Sanju Samson is now expected to be back as Abhishek Sharma’s regular opening partner. Former India captain and batting great Sunil Gavaskar said in the immediate aftermath of the squad announcement that Gill and Suryakumar had been in the same flight as him to Mumbai from Ahmedabad, where India won the fifth T20I against South Africa on Friday by 30 runs. “He was in the same flight coming back from Ahmedabad with Surya,” said Gavaskar on Star Sports. “So two things I am going to say. Surya was sitting on the seat in front of me, I tapped him on the arm and told him that I am available for selection. So that is also a surprise for me,” Gavaskar joked. “And the other thing is, when …

Why Shubman Gill, marketer’s dream, will prevail over Sanju Samson in India’s T20 World Cup team as opening batsman | Cricket News

Why Shubman Gill, marketer’s dream, will prevail over Sanju Samson in India’s T20 World Cup team as opening batsman | Cricket News

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Over the years, national selectors, fairly or unfairly, have indulged star players longer than others. And it is this longstanding selection tradition that has, at times, cast selectors as prophetic visionaries or, conversely, as scapegoats for abject failure. Today Ajit Agarkar and Gautam Gambhir sit to have a debate on India’s T20 World Cup squad. Considering his form-slump and the chatter over other allegedly better openers on the fringe, Gill’s name is expected to trigger a discussion. But finally, after the mandatory talk, the selectors will expectedly bring out the good old ‘long rope’ and hand it over to the T20 vice-captain, who also happens to be the Test and ODI skipper. The decision will obviously upset fans of Sanju Samson, an opener with a far better opening record than Gill. But is it wise to indulge Gill? Is he worthy to be given that long rope? With just a bit more than a month to go for India’s opening game of the World T20, the answer is “Yes”. It is too late in the …

Why India’s T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav and vice-captain Shubman Gill losing form, is the start of a blunt headache | Cricket News

Why India’s T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav and vice-captain Shubman Gill losing form, is the start of a blunt headache | Cricket News

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India’s 51-run drubbing by South Africa – their second-biggest loss by runs in the history of this format – in Mullanpur on Thursday has triggered a nagging worry; India’s captain and vice-captain simply cannot find runs. After crisscrossing the country as India have been doing during South Africa’s month-long all-format tour – quite the rarity these days given the quagmire of modern cricket scheduling – the two teams will trade boisterous Punjab for serene Himachal Pradesh as they arrive in Dharamshala. The third T20I of the five-match series will be played at the picturesque HPCA Stadium on Sunday with honours even, but a sword hanging. The hosts will be hoping to imbibe some of the mindful calm of the hillside as Indian cricket’s palace of intrigue has raged in the background, and at times in the foreground, of this tour. The 0-2 humiliation in the Test series was damning in its indictment of India’s red-ball capabilities. And the ODI series win was an announcement, of both form and intent, from Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, …

Shubman Gill: ‘I had to detach a part of my personality that was only happy with success in cricket’ | Cricket News

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Shubman Gill chilling with Ed Sheeran during the English pop star’s visit to India. Gill as the voice of the Indian Spiderman in the sprawling movie franchise. Gill on the GQ cover. The 24-year-old youth icon is everywhere but in the T20 World Cup team as India has chosen to go with the veterans for the tournament in the US and the Caribbean in June. It might hurt him, but he will be fine. Gill has been there on the doors of rejection, lost his appetite for the game, felt “disconnected” with the sport after relatively run-barren years in Test cricket in 2021 and 2022, developing self-doubts. But he rediscovered his love by going back to the reason he first started to play it when he was just four. Ever since he was adjudged the ‘Player of the Tournament’ at the under-19 World Cup in 2018, Gill has been earmarked to continue India’s tradition of producing world-class batsmen. It wasn’t just wishful thinking when fans and pundits mentioned his name in the same breath as …