{"id":225358,"date":"2025-06-30T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225358\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:07:11","slug":"ind-vs-eng-not-proactive-shubman-gills-captaincy-lambasted-by-former-england-cricketer-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225358\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs ENG: &#8216;Not proactive&#8217; &#8211; Shubman Gill&#8217;s captaincy lambasted by former England cricketer | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/122144950.jpg\" alt=\"IND vs ENG: 'Not proactive' - Shubman Gill's captaincy lambasted by former England cricketer\" title=\"India captain Shubman Gill and England captain Ben Stokes after the 1st Rothesay Test Match (Image by Gareth Copley\/Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>India captain Shubman Gill and England captain Ben Stokes after the 1st Rothesay Test Match (Image by Gareth Copley\/Getty Images) India\u2019s dramatic collapse on Day 5 of the first Test in Leeds has sparked serious debate around <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shubman-gill\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shubman Gill<\/a>\u2019s captaincy, with former England cricketers David Lloyd and Alastair Cook offering contrasting views. Despite dominating large parts of the match, India succumbed to a five-wicket loss against England, handing the hosts a 1-0 lead in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series. Gill\u2019s leadership, in his first major Test assignment as captain, came under scrutiny after India\u2019s tactical errors and sloppy fielding proved costly on the final day. David Lloyd, speaking on Sky Sports\u2019 &#8220;Stick to Cricket podcast&#8221;, was critical of Gill\u2019s approach.<a href=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"strong\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\"\/> &#8220;The intrigue is with Shubman Gill, who\u2019s a very inexperienced skipper. How\u2019s he going to come back from that? He\u2019s got Ravindra Jadeja and Karun Nair, who are in their 30s. So he\u2019s got experience in his team. It\u2019s great having a young team that he\u2019s got. But tactically, he\u2019s reactive rather than proactive in the stuff that he\u2019s doing,&#8221; Lloyd said.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Day 2 at the Nets in Edgbaston | IND vs ENG Test Series<\/p>\n<p> However, former England captain Alastair Cook urged patience, drawing parallels to Ben Stokes&#8217; early days as skipper. \u201cWhen you take over a team, there will always be a phase when the team gets used to the new leader. This happened with (Ben) Stokes when he came in. It took a while (for England players) to get used to him when he came in and said, \u2018We\u2019re going to try and smash every ball,&#8221; Cook replied.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>What is your opinion on Shubman Gill&#8217;s captaincy after the recent Test match?<\/p>\n<p> India\u2019s defeat was particularly surprising given five centuries across both innings \u2014 from Rishabh Pant (twice), KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Gill himself. Still, collapses from 430\/3 to 471 and 333\/4 to 364, along with dropped catches, allowed England to chase down 371 under clouds with relative ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India captain Shubman Gill and England captain Ben Stokes after the 1st Rothesay Test Match (Image by Gareth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,11096,88885,43158,88884,34926,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-225358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-news","10":"tag-gill-captain","11":"tag-india-cricket","12":"tag-india-england","13":"tag-shubman-gill","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114769641136336419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}