Shubman Gill

159 articles tagged with "Shubman Gill"

Aug 14, 2026

Gambhir has two ICC trophies and ten defeats in nineteen Tests, and Galle is about the second number

India start in Galle on Saturday with a coach whose white-ball record is close to flawless and whose Test record is not. Both are true. Only one of th...

Aug 13, 2026

India’s No. 3 at Galle: Padikkal should play, and not for the reason everyone says

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has left India choosing between Devdutt Padikkal and Sarfaraz Khan at first drop in Galle. The case for the left-hander is tactica...

Aug 11, 2026

Sri Lanka lose Kusal Mendis for both Tests and Nissanka for Galle, four days before India start

Sri Lanka’s two most established top-order batters will not be in the side that meets India on Saturday. One is out of the series entirely, and the ot...

Aug 10, 2026

Sarfaraz Khan replaces Sudharsan for the Sri Lanka Tests, 21 months after his last one

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has not cleared in time for Galle, and India have turned to a batter who last played a Test in November 2024. Sarfaraz Khan joins...

Aug 8, 2026

Sudharsan’s toe rules him out of Galle, and Padikkal’s 142 lands the same afternoon

India lost their No. 3 to a toe stress fracture and found a replacement in the same day’s play in Colombo.

Aug 7, 2026

Sri Lanka’s second string made 363 at the NCC, and Manav Suthar was India’s best bowler

Eight days before the first Test at Galle, India’s attack spent 90 overs in the field at the Nondescripts and got one wicket out of its seamers.

Aug 7, 2026

Gill was hit twice in Thursday’s session, and KL Rahul led India’s warm-up instead

Shubman Gill took two blows to his right hand at practice in Colombo on Thursday and was held out of day one of India’s only warm-up before the Sri La...

Aug 4, 2026

Auqib Nabi has 104 Ranji wickets in two seasons, and it took a Bumrah injury to get him picked

Two Ranji seasons, 104 wickets and a maiden title for Jammu and Kashmir were not enough to get Auqib Nabi into an India squad. A knee injury to Jaspri...

Aug 4, 2026

Jadeja needs two wickets in Galle to join a three-man club, and he would get there fastest

Only Botham, Vettori and Kapil Dev have made 4,000 Test runs and taken 350 Test wickets. Jadeja is two wickets away, and he is 13 Tests quicker than t...

Aug 4, 2026

The BCCI will review how India manage injuries once the Sri Lanka Tests are done

India’s selectors picked Jasprit Bumrah for the Sri Lanka Tests expecting him to be fit. He is not, and the board has lined up a formal review of how...

Aug 3, 2026

Sudharsan is batting again in Bengaluru, and India’s Colombo warm-up loses a day

India fly to Colombo on 4 August with their No. 3 still waiting on a fitness clearance, and with one day less of warm-up cricket than they had planned...

Aug 3, 2026

Punjab gets a T20 league of its own, and the calendar is already in the way

The Sher-e-Punjab T20 League was launched in New Chandigarh on Sunday: six city franchises, 27 matches from 30 August, and an auction on 9 August. Whe...

Aug 2, 2026

Bumrah is out of the Sri Lanka Tests, two days after clearing his fitness tests

India’s medical staff have told Jasprit Bumrah not to rush the left knee he has been managing since the T20 World Cup, and he will not travel for the...

Aug 1, 2026

Bumrah clears the COE’s fitness tests and is available for both Sri Lanka Tests

India’s seam stocks were down to Siraj, Prasidh Krishna and an uncapped Punjab quick. The clearance changes the shape of the Galle Test.

Jul 31, 2026

India’s record in Sri Lanka says one thing, the last 20 months say another

India have not lost a Test series in Sri Lanka since 2008 and have won their last five Tests on the island. After two home whitewashes and a nine-year...

Jul 29, 2026

Subhadeep Ghosh replaces T Dilip as India’s fielding coach before the Sri Lanka Tests

India dropped five catches in a single T20I in Harare this week. The man hired to fix that is a 57-year-old from Digboi with 17 first-class games behi...

Jul 28, 2026

Jadeja returns and Saransh Jain earns a first call-up in India’s Sri Lanka Test squad

India’s 15 for the two Tests in Sri Lanka has Ravindra Jadeja back from a tennis elbow and a maiden call-up for 33-year-old off-spinner Saransh Jain,...

Jul 25, 2026

Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad: pitch report, records and stats

The world’s largest cricket ground has staged four IPL finals and two World Cup finals in five seasons. Here is what its pitch actually does, format b...

Jul 25, 2026

India’s Test squad for Sri Lanka lands on Tuesday, with Bumrah’s knee the big call

Ajit Agarkar’s panel has three days to work out how to handle Jasprit Bumrah’s knee and Washington Sundar’s hamstring before a two-Test tour that open...

Jul 22, 2026

India’s fitness problem is bigger than one lost series in England

After India’s one-day series loss in England, Shubman Gill pointed not at the opposition but at a run of injuries that stopped him fielding his strong...

Jul 20, 2026

India’s road back to the World Test Championship final runs through Sri Lanka

India begin their World Test Championship run-in with two Tests in Sri Lanka next month, and fifth place in the table means Galle and Colombo already...

Jul 20, 2026

Duckett’s record 141 downs India as England seal the ODI series at Lord’s

England beat India by 27 runs at Lord’s to take the ODI series 2-1, with Ben Duckett’s record 141 outgunning a fighting 138 from Rohit Sharma.

Jul 18, 2026

Rohit retirement talk shadows the Lord’s decider, but the BCCI pushes back

Reports that Sunday’s third ODI at Lord’s could be Rohit Sharma’s last one-day international have drawn a firm denial from the BCCI, leaving the quest...

Jul 17, 2026

India and England head to a Lord’s decider with the series level

The three-match series reaches Lord’s on Sunday tied at 1-1, with India and England each having landed one win and a decider left to separate them.