On what did Shubhman Gill express satisfaction?Image Credit source: PTI
India vs Australia: Just as the Test series started on the England tour, the ODI series started in Australia in the same way. This is the story of Team India’s new captain Shubman Gill, who had to face defeat in his very first match as Test and ODI captain in both formats. In the first ODI match played against Australia in Perth, the Indian team flopped on every front. There was no part in this match where the Indian team looked effective. But despite this, the new captain Shubman Gill did not look too disappointed, in fact he even told what he was satisfied with.
In this first match of the ODI series, the Indian team’s batting proved to be the worst. Batting first, the Indian team scored 136 runs in this match. In this match which was stopped four times due to rain, overs were reduced to 26. But Indian batsmen were never seen playing the full 50 overs. Star batsmen Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli returning to the team failed miserably while captain Gill and vice-captain Shreyas Iyer also proved ineffective. Then Australia achieved the target within 22 overs.
Shubman Gill expressed satisfaction on this matter
Team India had to face defeat by 7 wickets but despite this, Captain Gill seemed satisfied with the fact that Australia was not allowed to win easily. Talking about the team’s poor batting and then bowling, Gill said, “When you lose 3 wickets in the powerplay, you always try to make a comeback. There was a lot for us to learn in this match and there were some positives too. We were defending only 130 runs and still took the game very far. We are satisfied with this.”
It is necessary to return in the second match
It is true that according to the Duckworth-Lewis method, Australia got the target of only 131 runs in 26 overs to win and to achieve it, Australia had to work hard for 22 overs. But the other side of this is that the Australian team did not appear to be in trouble even once while batting and Mitchell Marsh easily took his team to the target without putting it in any trouble. In such a situation, Gill’s statement that the team took the match very far is not easily accepted. Now the captain will only hope that he can make a comeback in the second match and level the series.