"Gill is going to shoulder responsibility of Indian team in years to come"

Impressed by Shubman Gills various range of strokes Sanjay Bangar and Navjot Singh Sidhu feel that the 25yearold will lead Team Indias batting in the years to comeIn the Champions Trophy 2025 Shubman Gill smashed 46 runs in the match against archrivals Pakistan Previously he delivered a matchwinning century against Bangladesh in their Champions Trophy 2025 opening match against New ZealandClearly hes the guy who is going to shoulder the responsibility of the Indian team going forward in years to come Bangar said JioHotstarSpeaking about the 25yearolds technique Bangar said His foundations are really really strong and add to that the confidence of nearly twoandahalf years of performing in oneday cricket In oneday cricket hes been phenomenalNow look the straight drive the ondrive are the shots wherein you cannot actually hit the ball really hard But here he was hitting the ball so hard that despite the midoff and the midon fielder being on that 30yard circle the ball was going and hitting themThats the kind of timing he possessesNavjot Singh Sidhu was also nothing short of praise for Shubman Gill He said that Gill has emerged from the shadows of titans such as Virat Kohli and Rohit SharmaLook see nothing grows under a banyan tree and the banyan tree of Indian cricket is basically Rohit Sharma and with him Virat Kohli But when you look at Shubman Gill those two straight drives even the blistering cover drive this is like a blitzkrieg where the opposition is taken aback you know its aweinspiring Sidhu saidAlso ReadToday cricket has finished in Pakistan Ahmed ShehzadThis man has emerged from the shadows of that banyan tree and has come of age Its tough to say that You rate ability in men by what they finish not by what they attempt When you actually take your side through after scoring a hundred and dont throw your wicket that responsibility is making you betterIt is developing you its not ruining you So every responsibility that hes shouldered has made him better And to me the best thing is hes technically so sound that he makes it look so easy Sidhu addedShreyas Iyer also sizzled with the bat against Pakistan scoring a welltimed halfcentury in the company of Kohli as India achieved victory with six wickets to spareHe is somebody who is very hardworking in the sense that he has gone through a lot of challenges He has missed out playing Test cricket because of some injury concerns and knows the value of playing for the nationAnd thats when once he got that big performance in the World Cup there was never a question that who is going to be Indias No 4 He is a player who is always trying to get better and better Sanjay Bangar said of IyerThe former India allrounder has also noticed a marked improvement in his approach against the short ballAs for his approach against the short ball I am very happy that earlier he used to back off to the left side and hit towards the offside But now he is happy to develop a method wherein if he feels that he has to be defensive he is defensiveWhen he wants to attempt the shots there is a high percentage of shots which he has control over Bangar saidSidhu was impressed by Iyers ability to keep the momentum going while scoring his runsThere is one thing that separates him from the rest In skating over thin ice your safety is speed This man gives you that speed See you look at the pace at which the scoreboard is moving Pakistan after the first 34 or 35 overs were 134 or 140oddAfter the first 10 overs India was 6070 And when this man comes he puts on his skating shoes and is invariably changing gear from the first gear to the fourth gear or the fifth gear and then he comes back So he paces his innings 67 balls 56 Its not 95 balls scoring a 50 So there are qualities that Shreyas Iyer has Sidhu saidWith PTI Inputs