Young Indian opener Shubman Gill has stated he went again to the fundamentals and adopted the “old template” to return to kind in T20Is.
The 23-year-old failed to achieve double digits and received out at 3, 7 and 6 within the first three T20Is, earlier than returning to kind in a 47-ball 77 in India’s nine-wicket win over the West Indies in Lauderhill on Saturday.
“In the first three matches, I could not even score 10, today (the) wicket was a bit better, so wanted to capitalise. Then when I got a good start, we just wanted to finish it,” Gill stated in a dialog with Punjab pacer and team-mate Arshdeep Singh after the fourth T20I.
“T20 format is like that. When you have 3-4 matches where a good shot is caught by the fielder, and you are eyeing quick runs, you don’t have time to think much…
“It’s important to go to your basics. You just look at what your template was when you were consistently scoring runs.
“You have to identify whether you are making any mistake. I felt I wasn’t making a mistake in any of the three matches. But I couldn’t convert my starts,” he added.
Left-arm pacer Arshdeep claimed 3/38, whereas left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav (2/26) was the subsequent greatest as India restricted the West Indies to 178/8.
In reply, Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal had been off to a flier to place collectively 165-run opening partnership.
The win levelled the five-match sequence 2-2 with India taking it to the decider slated in a while Sunday.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com