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Shubman Gill - Being Wasted by KKR?


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24 minutes ago, The Dark Horse said:

Sundar is warming the benches for RCB, Yusuf is played instead of Abhishek Sharma who showed flashes of brilliance last season, Amit Mishra was played instead of Lamichane in the first few games, Parthiv is still playing for RCB. Lesser said about CSK, the better. At least Gill is played regularly, and not in the bench. Hopefully he'll get a chance up the order in the future!

He would have won them yesterdays game

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2 hours ago, jf1gp_1 said:

 Everyone has been spoken about but the most obvious option will never be discussed. How the heck is Sunil Narine batting ahead of Gill ? infact why on earth is he opening batting ? The guy is living off a handful of innings. Its an experiment which paid off now move on, i cant believe they are continuing with him. He can swing his bat at 7 or 8 as well. 

Narine certainly a better T20 batsman than Gil. It wasn't an experiment.  It's their remedy for success. Never expect such young batsmen to consistently deliver in T20 cricket.

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43 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

How I wish we had the option of mid league transfer in IPL.

 

Guys like Gill, Kishan, Sundar, Manish Pandey, Khaleel, Rajpoot, Abhishek Sharma, Munro, Stanlake could all add so much strength to struggling sides

We do have that option

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I don't see Gill staking a claim with T20 stars like Lynn, Narine, Uthappa (he was in top 2 run scorers for KKR in few seasons), Karthik and Russell. Gill certainly wont like the role of smacking the ball deep in stands like Lynn and Narine. This power hitting and hoicks do not affect these batsmen as they do not play test fomrat. Russell too can hoick as he is T20 and ODI specialist. Also it will be very difficult for Gill to match brute and raw  power hitting of Lynn, Narine, Russell, Uthappa.

 

Gill should use the SMA trophy to smack the ball and score runs at extraordinary strike rate to stake a claim in this strong KKR batting lineup. That is one tourney where he can show he has the muscles to tonk the ball like the other batsmen in the team.

 

He is a different mould of batsman and hence he findis it difficult to get more  chances to bat amongst other power hitters. Nevertheless a fine prospect for the future but there are better options with KKR for the time being.

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That's why I have always supported DD and RR( partly because of Dravid), they give chances to young talented cricketers and help us see their abilities. I don't have much time for IPL but still try to watch Delhi matches to see how Shaw is doing.

 

I wish Gill was also picked by one of the weaker franchises, would have got more chances to showcase his talent. 

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3 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

If it works why not! You go with what works for you. Why would you fix what's not broken.

I am just taking forward your point about supposed better T20 batsman getting to play ahead of unproven entities. It's about giving the player right number to shine as well, imagine someone like Virat demoted to no.6 , he would fail most of the time.

And this is not about fixing something that ain't broke, KKR has required Russell's blitz in all the games so far and the opening combo has definitely looked out of sorts for them. 

For their own good, if they intend to waste Gill down the order, they should pick someone else.

 

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5 minutes ago, Suhaan said:

Most of the times.we have seen Lynn struggling,cant play spin Gill shouldn't be batting any lower than no.4

 

2018 IPL :

Gill scored 203 runs in 11 innings. Lynn top scored for KKR with 491 runs in 16 innings.

 

 

2019:

 

Gill has scored 25 runs in 3 innings. Lynn has scored 80 in 4.

 

No way KKR can replace a proven T20 and T20i cricketer like Lynn unless he fails for two continous seasons for KKR. If franchisees drop players on one bad season like RCB dropped Gayle and Rahul for unproven players then it can hit back very very badly.

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34 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

I am just taking forward your point about supposed better T20 batsman getting to play ahead of unproven entities. It's about giving the player right number to shine as well, imagine someone like Virat demoted to no.6 , he would fail most of the time.

And this is not about fixing something that ain't broke, KKR has required Russell's blitz in all the games so far and the opening combo has definitely looked out of sorts for them. 

For their own good, if they intend to waste Gill down the order, they should pick someone else.

 

Gill is a far inferior version of Virat right now and even Virat struggles to up the tempo in PP and not ideal opener for RCB and big reason for their struggle. You need someone who can make use of PP at this point as opener. You don't need an accumulator. Expecting 20 year old to perform that way is unfair even on Gill because he isn't that kind of player. Not a basher. If they had someone like Pant or Kishen benched or on lower order or even Shaw, I would have wholeheartedly agreed. Like MI have benched Kishan who is your quintessential T20 prospect, a basher and they need to drop Yuvraj for him. 

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