SHUBMAN GILL (left) and Graham Gooch (BCCI | File) Leeds: India is ready to face England in the first test of the series of five matches in Leeds since June 20. The unit led by SHUBMAN GILL has been preparing for more than two weeks and even appears in the intra-squad game in Beckenham. Timesofindia.com spoke to the former English captain Graham Gooch, who spoke in detail about the captain, the challenge for SHUBMAN GILL, why England makes sense and what can be expected this summer this summer.Excerpts …England tour begins a new era in the Indian cricket. Your thoughts on the side under SHUBMAN GILL. He is only 25 years old and still works as a test dough. Will the leadership of the inexperienced party be a real challenge for him?It’s a new era, isn’t it? My opinion is that if one door closes, another will open. I am sure they will provide a good description of themselves. The talent in the Indian cricket team is undoubted. It’s just that there are a few big shoes that can be filled with Rohit Sharmou and Virat Kohli, who retires. It will be a big loss if Bumrah does not give an attack in all games. I think it is, of course, a world -class pitch. The pressure will be turned on, but some of the younger players will have to strengthen. And Captain, it is a great honor for the captain of your country and I am sure that (Gill) can do it in a good way.After you would lead England during this period and then the type of success you had with the bat in this period, was there one advice you give Gill? Not every player is able to handle the pressure of the captain.I completely disagree with the pressure. Some people are not on pressure. I disagree with this sentiment. I believe that being a captain of your country is the greatest honor that the artist can receive. Because you are not just a captain of another 10 players, you are the captain of your sport. Your responsibility as a role model and as an ambassador sets the tone of the cricket system of your country, from professional crickets to crickets playing the zonal cricket in your country, and young, boys and girls seeking to play for India or representative teams is your responsibility to set the tone and be an example for all crickets in your country.
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Do you believe that SHUBMAN GILL will successfully lead an inexperienced Indian team against England?
So it’s more than just a team captain. I think the honor should inspire you as a player. It certainly inspired me. I do not always log in to the conclusion that it is more pressure. You have to do it in your own way and you have to be yourself, not copy anyone. I think the most important thing for the captain is that you have to do. Your main task in the team is to play with a bat in his case. So he has to do that. The captain is secondary to perform. And if you behave well, it makes the captain easier.There is a lot about the Indian team, but do you think England will make sense? The last time they had no good series against India when both sides met in the longest format.I think England makes sense to prove, because while I am for the type of cricket trying to play, exciting, expressive, on a cricket type of front legs to set the tone of the game to lead the game to opposition. I am for it, but the record suggests that they had some spectacular series where they won and some lost.I think the big factor for England is while you want to go to the attacker map, they did a great job. When you need to play intelligent in a test cricket, you need to play intelligent. Does it make sense? You can’t go on an attack every time. You have to play the situation. If such a situation requires you to dig a little, then you have to dig. But England in the last few years to attack too much. But the general principle of what they are trying to do, I think it’s good for a test cricket. Because, as we all know, the test cricket is extremely under the pressure of the franchise cricket.Do you think this aggressive cricket style also opens up many opportunities for an inexperienced Indian unit? England could leave some doors open due to cricket they play.I think Ben Stokes is that he doesn’t want to draw any test matches. He is not interested in drawing a test if he cannot win it. That leaves a little question. Sometimes it is impossible to win the test. The hardest thing in a five -day test is to create a winning opportunity. This does not mean that you will always take the winning opportunity. But you play two, three, four days to create a winning opportunity maybe on the last day. And England is playing for it.And they introduced the world, or Ben Stokes that he wanted to play that way. So sometimes you can find yourself in a difficult situation in the test, where you may need to store or anything. You have to play each situation individually. This gives the opposition, not an advantage, but they know how England wants to play. So they know they will go out and are not interested in a draw.How much will he say that he will have the absence of two stalwarts of the Indian cricket – Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma? Do you expect England to have a slight advantage because they don’t have to worry about two world -class crickets?The home advantage gives England a slight advantage, yeah. Because we are used to these conditions. Although now a different bowling attack with Anderson and Broad is retiring. England is still trying to find out what their best bowling attack is. We play your people and Australia that are back-to-back, the two best parties in the world. So we are still trying to find out what their best bowling attack is. So there’s a little question mark. But due to the English conditions, when the ball moves from the seam, India now also has quite good sailors, especially if Bumrah plays. They will therefore undoubtedly be competitive. But I think the home advantage will give England a slight advantage, but not very advantage.
SHUBMAN GILL returns to the city where it all started like a young man
Different places in England are different challenges. How different from each other and what should the guest team remember?I think what you have to consider is that we had a very dry summer. Over the past three months, almost no rain. And that means all the courses will be quite dry. And I don’t think they will, I think all English places want the match to go for four days. So, unlike some other parts of the world. Where you can get the ball to do what you want. Here, the area, they want the match to go for four days. Do you understand what I say? So they try to produce a pretty flat playground. They may seem a little and can turn a little to the end. But they will be nice, in general they will be quite good playgrounds.So it could mean hard work for pitching …Well, we had an unusually dry first half of summer. You know, there is no rain, hardly March and April. And lately a little rain. So they should be dry. And good playgrounds. So the pitchers will have to work hard.I don’t want to mix a plate of shrimp again, but some meal designs for visitors before we log out?(Laughs) I’m sure that if they want to try the shrimp tiger here, they will be fine.
