Former India coach Ravi Shastri wants in-form batter Shubman Gill to be in the playing XI ahead of vice-captain KL Rahul in the opening Test of the Border-Gavaskar series, beginning in Nagpur today.

“Shubman or Rahul [selection] depends on the team management. Obviously, you’d want to go with what you’ve been doing in the past, but form becomes critical. “Someone’s hitting it real sweet and it’s coming out of the centre of the bat. Then, you know, you wake up, and say, ‘listen’,” Shastri said on the ICC Review on Wednesday.