IND Vs ENG, 1st Test: Sunil Gavaskar bashes Shubman Gill for throwing his wicket away, Kevin Pietersen suggests measures

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ALSO READ: India vs England Live Score Updates, 1st Test Day 2 Upset with the shot selection by Gill, legendary cricketer and former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar minced no words in coming down heavily on Gill. "What kind of a shot was he looking to play? One can understand if he was looking to play it in the air but it was just a badly executed on-drive. He did all the hard work and then played a shot like that," said Gavaskar in commentary.

Earlier in December too, Gavaskar has expressed his concern over Shubman's shots selection. Unimpressed with Gill's batting in the Test series against South Africa, Gavaskar advised Gill to take in the different needs of Test cricket as compared to white-ball formats. "I think he is playing a bit too aggressively in Test cricket.

There is a slight difference when you play Test cricket compared to T20I and ODI cricket. The difference is in the ball," Gavaskar told Star Sports. "The red ball moves a little more than the white ball in the air and off the pitch as well. It bounces a little more too.

He should keep that in mind," Gavaskar added. Gavaskar hoped that Gill would find his range sooner than later. "Shubman Gill started off his career so well and we praised his shots.

We can only hope that he gets back into his form. Hope he trains harder and does well in the future," said Gavaskar. On Gill's approach, the former England batter Kevin Pietersen expressed visible concern and emphasized the importance of rotating the strike in Test cricket.

He suggested measures too, asking India's head coach Rahul Dravid to teach Gill in the same way Dravid taught him. Pietersen insisted that the young batter must diversify his skills to avoid such dismissals from becoming a regular occurrence. A