For all his flamboyance, Prithvi Shaw can be a bit hit or miss in Test cricket due to the obvious chinks in his technique. Once that was quite clear with Shaw looking quite uncomfortable against the moving ball on tours of New Zealand and Australia, Gill got his opportunity, and succeeded right away.
But, even in Gill’s case, the way he sets up and his penchant to stay beside the line of the ball meant that he would be much more successful in the middle order rather than at the top in red ball cricket.
Unfortunately, due to a litany of reasons, with Mayank Agarwal getting concussed after being hit on the head with a bouncer during practice and then subsequently losing form, Rohit Sharma getting injured on more than one occasion and KL Rahul being in an out of the side, India haven’t been able to audition Gill in the middle order.
But rest assured, he is in the squad for the Test series against Australia both as a backup opener and a spare middle order batter. Despite his red-hot…