‘Direct Shoot-Out Between Ruturaj Gaikwad And Shubman Gill For T20 WC’: Ex-India Star’s Big Claim | Cricket News

In the absence of massive names like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, a younger Indian group, led by Suryakumar Yadav, thrashed Australia 4-1 in a five-match T20Is sequence. Ruturaj Gaikwad was India’s top-scorer within the sequence with 223 runs in 5 matches at a median of 55.75. However, former India opener Aakash Chopra feels Gaikwad will face stiff competitors from Shubman Gill for a spot within the Indian group on the T20 World Cup subsequent yr.

Chopra defined why scoring runs within the sequence was necessary for Gaikwad.

“Ruturaj Gaikwad – he said that he is there. Ruturaj is going to have stiff competition because Shubman Gill also plays like that. Rohit Sharma will also come now. So suddenly you will feel that you aren’t even able to pick two among the three. So these runs were necessary,” Chopra stated on his YouTube channel.

“Keep scoring runs so that you are part of the squad when the World Cup comes. From his point of view, it’s important that he remains a part of the squad. It might be a direct shoot-out between him and Shubman Gill. You might keep one of them as both do similar things in T20 cricket,” he added.

Gaikwad’s 223 runs within the 5 video games are probably the most by any batter in a T20I bilateral sequence in opposition to Australia.

Earlier, the file belonged to New Zealand’s Martin Guptill who scored 218 runs in 5 matches again in 2021.

Although the teen was dismissed for simply 10 on Sunday, he was in a position to obtain the milestone due to good performances prior to now 4 matches.

Overall, he’s the third highest run-scorer in a single sequence amongst Indian batters behind KL Rahul and Virat Kohli.

Gaikwad will look to play the same function, if not higher, throughout the upcoming tour of South Africa.

India’s T20I squad for South Africa tour

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (C), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ravindra Jadeja (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar.