Former India captain Sourav Ganguly believes that Shubman Gill should captain India in every format of the game.
Speaking on the Captain’s Calm podcast, Ganguly praised Gill for his performance in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy in England earlier this year.
“The other day I was sitting at Eden Gardens, and somebody came and told me, ‘Do you think Shubman Gill should be captain of T20I?’ I said, ‘He should be captain of everything because he’s so good.’ And I asked him-three months ago, that fellow was in England, and he looked like gold: batting, captaincy, got a young team to fight, no Kohli, no Rohit Sharma. And in three months’ time, you’re asking questions. That’s the mindset of people. And it happens to someone who makes decisions all the time… you have to be patient, you have to allow somebody to become better.”
Gill was given the Test captaincy after two veterans, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, announced their retirement from the longest format of the game during IPL 2025. Gill’s young team fought hard in England and made a strong comeback to draw the series 2-2. The 25-year-old led from the front and scored 754 runs in five matches at an average of 75.40, including four centuries. India then whitewashed West Indies in the next Test series but lost the ODI series against Australia under Gill’s captaincy.
Then, he was named the new ODI captain and the new vice-captain of the T20I side. Recently, he suffered a neck spasm during the first Test against South Africa at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata and missed the second Test in Guwahati. However, he has been declared fit and available for the upcoming home T20I series against the Proteas.
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