IND v ENG 2nd Check: How did Shubman Gill get his demons below management in England?

Hazare, who made his Check captaincy debut in opposition to England in Delhi in November 1951, scored 164 within the first innings. He adopted it up with a 155 in his very subsequent Check in opposition to the identical opponent.

Azhar, alternatively, scored 121 within the first innings of a Lord’s Check in 1990 and chalked up 179 within the subsequent one at Manchester.

The query that begs to be requested is: what’s it that Gill has been doing otherwise ever since he set foot in England nearly on the again of the IPL 2025 season?

Whereas the preliminary plan was for the brand new captain to affix the India A-team — which landed on English soil in early June to play in opposition to the England Lions — to acclimatise himself with the circumstances, Gill selected to take some downtime as an alternative.

Regardless of the credit score due for his two centuries, as effectively, there’s a little bit of a buzz on social media that the England assault was not fairly the identical with out Jofra Archer and Mark Wooden. Plus, each venues provided excellent batting circumstances, the curmudgeons would add.

Whereas each arguments maintain, to some extent, one can not take away the credit score of how diligently Gill has labored on his defence strategies both, to counter the Englishmen’s seam and the swing in addition to spin.