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Shubman Gill - Being Wasted by KKR?


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The problem is I don’t think KKR needs Gill in this lineup . I can’t see anything wrong with their current top order . Lynn has done well for them in the past , narine can win matches on a good day  everything he scores is a bonus and uthappa is very consistent though his game has become very conservative they won’t drop him . 

 

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4 hours ago, rkt.india said:

Average of 48 at 135 is no Joke. Even India's top batsmen struggle to do that.

Higher avg at low SR will more often lose them matches.If they did not have Russell,they could have lost all the 4 matches.It took Russell to hit above 250 SR to win all their games.His avg is high now due to a not out innings.Eventually that will come down.Basically,he is KKR's Rahane.

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2 minutes ago, diehardpacer said:

Higher avg at low SR will more often lose them matches.If they did not have Russell,they could have lost all the 4 matches.It took Russell to hit above 250 SR to win all their games.His avg is high now due to a not out innings.Eventually that will come down.Basically,he is KKR's Rahane.

I don’t think Gill is a 150+ SR batsmen , not yet . 

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16 minutes ago, diehardpacer said:

Higher avg at low SR will more often lose them matches.If they did not have Russell,they could have lost all the 4 matches.It took Russell to hit above 250 SR to win all their games.His avg is high now due to a not out innings.Eventually that will come down.Basically,he is KKR's Rahane.

Gill is no high SR batsman. 

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5 minutes ago, jusarrived said:

I don’t think Gill is a 150+ SR batsmen , not yet . 

Gill's T20 SR is 141 & avg 31.If he is handled properly,he can get better.

Uthappa's overall T20 SR is 134 & avg 29.This season in 4 games he has 48 avg(1 not out) at 135 SR.

If both newbie & established player have similar stats,pick the newbie.He is likely to get better once he reaches the peak.

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21 minutes ago, diehardpacer said:

Gill's T20 SR is 141 & avg 31.If he is handled properly,he can get better.

Uthappa's overall T20 SR is 134 & avg 29.This season in 4 games he has 48 avg(1 not out) at 135 SR.

If both newbie & established player have similar stats,pick the newbie.He is likely to get better once he reaches the peak.

Hill's sample size is too small for comparison

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21 hours ago, rkt.india said:

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.

Right . Will remember. 

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23 hours ago, Straight Drive said:

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.

Why don't you look at balls faced by both of them . That's not a fair comparison. One opens the inning and other one comes at time when nothing can be done or there's no role for him at that time.

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20 hours ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

I have a feeling RCB will be most suited team for Gill. Under Kohli he will get to learn a lot and will improve him as a batsman.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
 

thats what i use to think 

In reality most youngsters in RCB endup have self doubts

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1 hour ago, S_pace said:

Why don't you look at balls faced by both of them . That's not a fair comparison. One opens the inning and other one comes at time when nothing can be done or there's no role for him at that time.

Russell, Hardik Pandya, Bravo, Miller, Pollard are all rounders and they have usually batted in lower middle order. They have scored more runs in many years for many franchisee teams. They are not even specialist batsmen. Yet they are outscoring lot of specialist batsmen even facing less balls.

 

2018 IPL

Gill scored 203 runs in 139 balls at strike rate of 146 batting in end overs.

 

Narine scored 357 in 188 at massive strike rate of 189.89

 

Lynn top scored for KKR with 491 runs and strike rate of 130.23.

 

 

Gill cannot be picked ahead of Lynn and Narine. Lynn was KKRs top scorer last year and a proven T20 format player. No way is Gill better than him in T20 as of now.

 

Narine is used as pinch hitter and he has had extremely good strike rate for KKR since he opened. Gill has not matched that strike rate even in SMA trophy which is  of lesser quality than IPL. Even Uthappa who was leading run scorer or one of top 2 or 3 run scorers every year for KKR was dropped one down for Narine. Even Uthappa is waiting to get back his spot where he had success in IPL.

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1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

Despite attempt to suppress GIll he won the Emerging player of the award Upto April 14th ( day before world cup squad announcement) Gill was batting down the order. After that date they pushed him to 3 and eventually to 1/2.   

He was used totally in the wrong position. Gill is not a hitter and will not at all thrive if you give him just 5-10 balls to score 20 runs. He is like Kohli where he can hit but only after he is well set and is in hitting form. He is definitely someone who is fit for top 3 only in t20

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10 hours ago, CoverDrive said:

He was used totally in the wrong position. Gill is not a hitter and will not at all thrive if you give him just 5-10 balls to score 20 runs. He is like Kohli where he can hit but only after he is well set and is in hitting form. He is definitely someone who is fit for top 3 only in t20

I think BCCI probably played a role? Why did they decide to push him

up the order the day after the squad was announced.

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