“Everyone Thought His Graph Will Go Up”: Gautam Gambhir Surprised By India Star’s Struggles | Cricket News

Team India levelled the three-match collection 1-1 in opposition to New Zealand after a six-wicket win in a low-scoring second T20I on Sunday in Lucknow. Asked to bowl first, Team India accepted the problem with opened arms arms and restricted the guests for 99/8 in 20 overs. However, the hosts additionally confronted an identical problem through the chase and misplaced their openers in a fast succession. Later, Suryakumar Yadav anchored the innings and took Team India throughout the road with one ball to spare. Many followers, specialists, and even India skipper Hardik Pandya lashed out on the pitch curator of the Ekana Cricket Stadium for arising with such a “shocker” pitch that resulted in solely 200 runs getting scored in 39.5 overs. However, former India batter Gautam Gambhir blasted India openers, particularly Ishan Kishan for his lack of ability to rotate the strike.

Batters of each groups struggled through the second T20I and the viewers didn’t get to see even a single six throughout the complete match. Ishan Kishan and Shubman Gill, who’re recognized for his or her aggressive batting type, have been dismissed for 19 and 11 respectively. Gambhir acknowledged that getting a boundary shouldn’t be simple on such pitches, so the gamers ought to shortly study to rotate the strike.

“I think these young players need to learn quickly how to rotate strike because, on a wicket like this, it’s not gonna be easy to go down the ground and hit those big sixes. It’s not only one chink in his armour. Indian unit as a batting unit has struggled against spin. Just the ability to not be able to manoeuvre, it’s easy to hit those big sixes but the ability to rotate strikes consistently. And there was enough purchase for spinners as well. It was pretty much evident when you got Michael Bracewell against Ishan Kishan,” Gambhir mentioned on Star Sports.

Ishan smashed his maiden ODI double hundred in opposition to Bangladesh in December final 12 months. However, the wicketkeeper-batter has been struggling to get an enormous rating since then. In the final 15 T20I matches, he solely managed to fetch 106 runs.

“It’s a shock due to the way in which he batted in Bangladesh after scoring that double-hundred. He has struggled after that, everybody thought his graph will begin rising up with the form of innings he has performed,” Gambhir mentioned.

The third and last T20I match can be performed in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

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