India Captain SHUBMAN GILL and Captain England Ben Stokes after 1. Indian dramatic collapse 5. The day of the first test in Leeds caused a serious debate around Captain SHUBMAN GILL, while former English crickets David Lloyd and Alastair Cook offer contrasting views. Despite the dominance of large parts of India, she succumbed to a loss of five goals against England and gave 1-0 leadership in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series. Gill’s lead, in his first main assignment of the test as a captain, came under control after Indian tactical mistakes and careless fields have proven to be expensive on the last day. David Lloyd, spoke to Sky Sports “Hell to Cricket Podcast”, was critical of Gill’s approach. “The intrigue is with Shaubman Gill, who is very inexperienced captain. How will he return from it? He has Ravindra Jadej and Karun Nair who are at the age of 30. So he has experience in his team.
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Former English captain Alastair Cook, however, urged patience and attracted parallels to Ben Stokes as a captain. “If you take over the team, there will always be a phase where the team gets used to the new leader. It happened with (Ben) Stokes when it came. It took (for English players) before they got used to him when he came and said,” We will try to break every ball, “Cook replied.
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The Indian defeat was particularly surprising due to the five centuries in both shifts – from Rishabh Pant (twice), Kl Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Gill. Nevertheless, it collapses from 430/3 to 471 and 333/4 to 364, along with dropped catches, allowed England to chase 371 under the clouds with relative ease.
