“Determined Not To Lose My Wicket LBW”: Shubman Gill After Match-Winning 50 cricket news

Shubman Gill on Monday said he had planned not to lose his wicket to an LBW decision despite the ball being low and turning quickly during the fourth Test against England, which India won by five wickets. Gill scored an unbeaten 52 in the second innings and shared a 72-run partnership with wicketkeeper-batsman Dhruv Jurel to rescue India from the crisis of 120/5 and win without losing any more wickets.

“I had a plan for the off-spinners – I had planned that I would keep the LBW out of the game. I have always played the off-spinners by stepping down the wicket and in this game, I just had to execute that and Just stay calm and don’t hesitate too much in playing the off-spinners,” Gill told GeoCinema after the hard-fought win, which gave the hosts an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-Test series.

Gill indicated that there were no devils in the wicket and that it was “good” for batting.

“I think when you are playing on a wicket like this, you have to keep the cracks out of the game. I mean, if the ball hits the crack, you can’t do much about it. But, if the ball hits the crack and doesn’t hit it, I think it was a good wicket to bat on.” Gill gave a lot of credit to Jurel and Kuldeep Yadav for their batting in the first innings, which helped the hosts score 307 runs in reply to England’s 353 runs. After scoring 177/7 at one time, the figure of 300 runs was reached.

“Dhruv (Jurel) was unbeaten on 30 and Kuldeep (Yadav) was also on the pitch for around 17 runs (at the time of stumps on the second day), the talks are about keeping (England’s) lead between 80 to 100 runs. “That’s what we had planned initially. But the way both of them batted – they surpassed everyone’s expectations,” Gill said.

In the end, England got a lead of only 46 runs in the first innings, which was quite manageable.

“The way Dhruv batted, he was so mature to face the spinners when needed and Akash (Deep), Kuldeep and (Mohammad) Siraj also helped him equally. Then, once the lead was just 40, It was 50 runs (46). We knew we were back in the game and our bowlers had to keep the pressure on the batsmen,” Gill said.

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