India’s captain Shubman Gill celebrates after scoring 250 runs in two days of the second Test. (AP/PTI Photo)

The new skipper suggests that he owns number 4 spots, doubt about capabilities in tests away from homeBirmingham: On the eve of the Edgbaston Test, the Indian team had an alternative training session. Typically, regularly closes a day before a test in XI, turning only to the media with the captain and takes a final look at the pitch.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Gill, however, decided to go through a broader routine. Dheeraj was drilled after a long batting session. Even a few minutes before the team bus, the players and assistant employees were ready to take the hotel, Gill was a solitary person to go away.

As he tirelessly raised the pitch for a few runs in 195 on Thursday, it was clear that the new captain of India was withdrawing all the hard work awards that he placed behind the screen.Gill arrived in England with suspicion on his lineage as a test batsman, leaving alone as captain. Three innings in his captaincy tenure, he emerged as the undisputed leader of India’s Test batting lineup at the age of 25. On Thursday, he again demonstrated his unquenchable hunger for runs.

In Naming Gill as Captain, the selectors took inspiration from how South Africa was appointed Graeme Smith In 2003, in its initial 20s to lead the team.Incidentally, Smith’s captaincy era also landed in England to start a dream. Smith scored a double hundred in Edgbaston before repeating the feat in the next match at Lord’s.To become India’s highest scorer in England, by crossing Sunil Gavaskar’s 221 (score in 1979), Gill has stopped his claim of India’s latest batting royalty. The next test is in Lord’s. After scoring a hundred in the leads, Gill kept his eyes when he went better than Smith.

Gill’s performance at the crease is assuring an advertisement as the leader of India’s batting group. It is not just about his own run – Gill is also working hard to take care of the young batting group. “He is amazing. It is incredible to see him batting as a captain. He is very clear in his head what he has to do with the team and we are very confident about what we are going to do,” Yashsvi Jaiswal After the first day’s game, he said about his captain. “We are making sure that whoever set should take the game as deeper as we can. And we usually talk about how we can play sessions from the session. We are in a very good mindset.”For a boy who has been harsh about opening the innings throughout his career, his best red ball knock has come in mid -order. It was in England in 2018, during its U-19 days under the supervision of Rahul DravidThat gill was kept in batting at number 3. Abhay Sharma, then there was an integral part of Dravid’s assistant employees, once told TOI, “There are times when you know that everything has been clicked for a cricketer. That tour of England was a time when you could bring Shubman to a different level.“At that time, there was a lot of discussion about Shubman’s batting position. Prithvi was opening the batting and we had other players who were expert openers. His game in ‘V’ is so strong that he could play for a long time and in an innings, in an innings, chilli and the air survived in a match. The place,” recalled Abhay. On the evidence of this tour so far, England will always have a special place in Gill’s heart.