IPL Eliminator: Cricket News returns home after becoming Test Captain of Mohali High India among souls as Shubman Gill

Timesofindia.com in Mullanpur: On Friday, when he leads the Gujarat Titans (GT) against the Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Eliminator at the new PCA Stadium in Mulanpur, this will be the first time that Shubman Gill will play at the site of his house after India became a Test captain of India.Will he be emotional or will it do a good job about it? Assistant curator Deepinder Chabra at the Mulanpur Stadium, keeps it crisp. “Punjabi Load Nahi Late (Punjabis did not overthink),” he tells the Timesofindia.com.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Chabra, who has given about two decades of his life to the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) and has seen the Test captain of India when he exited with an overcised helmet and pad, since then both of them trained GT at the stadium on Tuesday night.Who is that IPL player?“This is a great honor for us. A Punjab cricketer has become a Test captain of India. It is a big thing to become a Test captain of India. I told him that ‘Now your image will be in the stadium’s galleries next to Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli.’ He nodded his head and replied, “There will be no stone unturned to maintain that heritage,” Chabra is revealed.Gill’s height to test Captainsey has attracted a mixed reaction with several former cricketers who do not kill their words on the move.

“He has not even secured his place in India’s Test XI,” Srikanth told Timesopindia.com after the announcement of the captain of India to the young player.But back in Mohali, the vib is different. One of the masters of Shubman, Yuvraj Singh, was at Chandigarh Airport on Monday to get the prince of Indian cricket.

Former India bowler and national selector Harvinder Singh is ignoring the “noise” and he feels that Gill was the right choice for the Test captaincy.“I know there are concerns about his captain. But he is out of noise. There was always a leadership quality for him. Even in our selection panel, we dodged Shubman as the next captain of India. Therefore, I am not surprised,” calls Harvinder.“There will be a litmus test to ensure that India captained for the first time, also in England. It has been a worse dream for many former Indian captains. But it is good. Their bayings, their leadership and most importantly, their character will be tested. He would come out of a better cricketer at the end of the five -match series, “said the former cricketer, who has played 3 Tests and 16 Odis for India.

Gill passionWith not being available, GT was undergoing training at IS Bindra PCA Stadium in Mohali on Wednesday. The iconic site where it all started for Gill.Practicing GT batsmen in the nets is about watching Gill playing a lot of smooth strokes. Gill is an unquenchable passion with his age-group cricket days, spending time in the net. It is a habit to spend hours in facing the cricket ball that his father Lakhwinder Singh has drilled into a young Shubman, and the work he has done continues to follow.“At that age, you usually do not see anyone batting in a trap for so long. Then there were Shubman, who had to be excluded from the trap,” Gurikarat Mann is called.“A lot of credit goes to his father who understood him that the longer he is bats in the nets, the longer he will be able to bat in the match. I think it has become a habit. He is taking his father’s intellect with him.To end the conversation on a light note, Chabra revealed another unknown aspect about Gill. A feature that is less known for the world.“As a person, he has not changed much. He still performs the most bats in the nets. At the top, ‘Munda Mahul Bana’s Rakha (the boy keeps the atmosphere very light).” I have seen him pranking him in his U-16 days, and now nothing has changed, “says Chabra.

Punjab all -rounder Ramandeep Singh, who has known Gill from a very young age, stated the reason behind Gill’s stubbornness that he was to bat in the nets.“You will see a different Shubman in every game. From a very young age, one thing that was very unique in it was that he was a quick learner. He keeps improving himself. And the nets is his second home. He trains until he finds that perfection,” says Rampde.Ramandip further states how Gill has worked on his power-touching in recent years.“She was never a power-hitter. Even in T20, her strike rate hovering around 120. He tried to play with the ground. Playing aerial shots was not a big.In a few hours we will know if there will be a happy homecoming in India’s new Test skipper, but hopes and souls remain high in Mohali – the place where all this started for the right hand.