India Captain Shubman Gill speaks during a press conference in Edgbaston in Birmingham, England, Tuesday 1 July 2025. AP/PTI (AP07_01_2025_000278A)
Manchester: On Tuesday, Captain Shubman Gill accused the English team of not complying with the spirit of the game when Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett opened the battlements late fourth in the evening. “Many people talked about it. Allow me to clean the air once and for all. The English bats remains seven minutes on that day. They were 90 seconds late to come to the fold. Not 10, not 20, 90 seconds late,” Gill said.“Most teams use such tactics delay. Even if we were in this position, we would also like to play less crossing, but there is a way to do it. We felt that if you were affected on your body, physios may come. That’s fair. But that’s fair. But that’s fair. Bumhrah.But Gill admitted that he wasn’t quite proud of how things were reflected. He claimed that emotions had improved because English dough was wasting time. “There have been many things that we thought should not happen. I wouldn’t say it was something I was very proud of, but it happened. It didn’t work out.“You play the game. You play to win and there are a lot of emotions. There are things that should not happen. But sometimes emotions come out of nowhere,” he added.
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The English camp claimed that their aggression in the field on the last day was just the reciprocation of an Indian explosion against their openers. “It is obvious that it started that night when Zak and Ben had to go out. We had the advantage that Bowling last won in the test match. We just threw everything in India, not only with our skills, but also with our field energy,” said English captain Ben Stokes.“I think it was a really nice moment as a team when you talk about something like that and everyone buys,” he added.Stokes claimed that his team would not choose the fight with the opposition in the rest of the series. “We are (not) intentionally going out and look to start (rising on the opponent), because then it will focus on what we have to do in the middle. But by no means is it great,” he said would be confronted with him. This is for most teams.It will be interesting to see how England reacts after the accusation of SHUBMAN GILL.
