{"id":245997,"date":"2025-07-07T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245997\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:09:10","slug":"shubman-gill-effect-former-batter-warns-england-ahead-of-lords-test-come-up-with-an-answer-for-him-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245997\/","title":{"rendered":"Shubman Gill effect! Former batter warns England ahead of Lord’s Test – ‘Come up with an answer for him’ | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ShubmanPlayer of the match Shubman Gill after winning the 2nd Rothesay Test Match against England (Image by Gareth Copley\/Getty Images) Former England cricketer Mark Butcher has heaped praise on India\u2019s new Test captain Shubman Gill<\/a>, highlighting his composure and technical finesse in filling the shoes of Indian great Virat Kohli at the crucial number four spot. Gill\u2019s stellar form in the ongoing Test series against England has earned him 585 runs in four innings, and silencing doubts over his technique and temperament. \u201cThere aren’t many jobs in world sport that come with as much pressure and scrutiny as being Indian cricket<\/a> captain, right? Not to mention you’re filling in Kohli’s spot in the order, or Tendulkar’s spot in the order,\u201d Butcher told PTI. \u201cSo the pressures were enormous. And so far, he’s taken to it like a duck to water. He’s just looked very, very comfortable, very serene in terms of his temperament,\u201d the 52-year-old added.<\/p>\n

Shubman Gill, Gautam Gambhir shut critics with thumping win over England<\/p>\n

Speaking further on Gill\u2019s performance, Butcher said, \u201cAnd technically, he’s played beautifully as well. So what a great start to the series. I mean, he might have some records in his side by the end of it. He’s passed enough already. So what’s he got? 600 already in the series. It has been an incredible start.\u201d He added that England need a plan for India\u2019s middle order, especially Gill, stating, \u201cEngland will have to come up with an answer for him… because they obviously feel, that you get past the top three or four…and then there are bounties to be had a bit further down the order.\u201d Butcher also shared his admiration for KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal<\/a>, commending the former’s consistency and Jaiswal\u2019s hunger for runs. \u201cEvery time I’ve seen KL play, so we go back to the 2021 series here in England, and he batted at the top of the order with Rohit,\u201d he said. \u201cSo technically, he just looks very, very suited to top-order batting, really. And the fact that he’s now going to have a long run, hopefully, in that position, his average will go upwards of 40 very, very quickly because technically he’s fabulous. He’s a great player to watch.\u201d Butcher described Jaiswal as a \u201cgenerational talent\u201d and spoke about his batting obsession, as relayed to him by Kumar Sangakkara. \u201cJaiswal just loves batting by the looks of it… he\u2019s obsessed by batting and scoring runs. And he does it in a beautifully pleasing way. For somebody who’s so young and so relatively inexperienced to sort of look as comfortable at the top of the order in all these different conditions, is magnificent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Poll<\/p>\n

What aspect of Gill’s game do you find most impressive?<\/p>\n

On India\u2019s No. 3 spot, Butcher suggested the team should commit to a player. \u201cYou have to kind of make your choice and stick with it for a while because clearly, facing the new ball is difficult. People are going to get out for low scores. But you have to make your decision on who you think is the guy that’s going to fulfil that position.\u201d Regarding Jaiswal\u2019s potential short-ball vulnerability, Butcher remarked: \u201cYeah, possibly (he has a short ball weakness). It hasn’t cost him his wicket as yet. But it’ll be something that he’ll work on, I’m sure… I’m sure he’ll come up with an answer for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player of the match Shubman Gill after winning the 2nd Rothesay Test Match against England (Image by Gareth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,11096,95499,95500,88884,95503,34926,95502,95501,79,16,15,26790],"class_list":{"0":"post-245997","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","11":"tag-gill-test","12":"tag-india-england","13":"tag-india-test-captain","14":"tag-shubman-gill","15":"tag-shubman-gill-mark-butcher","16":"tag-shubman-gill-runs","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-yashasvi-jaiswal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114813532194716895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245997","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=245997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}