Indian Captain Shubman Gill plays a shot on the fourth day of the fourth cricket test between England and India in Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester, England, 26 July 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Former Indian cricket Deep Dasgupt killed critics and defended the captain of young India SHUBMAN GILL.The continuing omission of the wrist of the left shoulder of Kuldeep Yadav caused an intense debate, especially after the record century Joe Root in the ongoing fourth test, where the eclipse of Ricky Ponting to become the second highest running shooter in the test cricket. Root, now at 13 409 runs, trails only Sachin Tendulkar’s record 15 291.Legendary Sunil Gavascar said that SHUBMAN GILL might not have had the last word in choosing XI playing.Former Captain of England Nasser Hussain in his column for the Daily Mail killed Indian captain. He wrote: “Indian performance was dotted with SHUBMAN GILL errors.”But Dasgupta, who makes a comment for the BBC sport, laid his leg and supported Gill.“When I see a lot of critics of SHUBMAN in the media. I’ll say it again – it’s one of the most difficult tasks for every Indian captain in England,” he wrote at X.“And SHUBMAN got it as his first task, with a young, quite inexperienced team. He will learn about the job.“Maybe I disagree with all his calls, but we must be more patient with him.”After the Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudharsan lost in his second shifts without a single run on the album, Rahul and Gill showed maturity and courage to negate the threat of batting on Saturday. The duo added a 174-run partnership before the end of the game, which significantly reduced England’s leadership to 137 runs.
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Rahul was undefeated to 87 while Gill stayed out to 78 and would have a big task to move India towards the draw.Former English dough Jonathan Trott emphasized the physical and mental endurance that Gill showed after a tax day in the field.“This is where fitness – physical and mental – becomes decisive, not only in the T20, but especially in the test cricket. Gill scored around 50 in front of tea and then only 28-29 in the session – showing serious mental power.“When he came out in the second shifts – after the first chaos of the first – we saw SHUBMAN GILL, the dough. Maybe the moment helped to clear his head. He realized he had to burn time and focus only on his country, his team, to save this game,” he said.
