Ever since he was adjudged the ‘Player of the Tournament’ at the under-19 World Cup in 2018, Shubman Gill has been earmarked to continue India’s tradition of producing world-class batsmen. (SportzPics/BCCI)
The 24-year-old youth icon Shubman Gill is everywhere but in the T20 World Cup team as India has chosen to go with the veterans for the tournament in the US and the Caribbean in June. It might hurt him, but he will be fine. Gill has been there on the doors of rejection, lost his appetite for the game, felt “disconnected” with the sport after relatively run-barren years in Test cricket in 2021 and 2022, developing self-doubts. But he rediscovered his love by going back to the reason he first started to play it when he was just four. (READ MORE)
