Rahul Tiwari
khelja|20-01-2025
Rohit Sharma and Team India's Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar announced Team India for the ICC Champions Trophy in a press conference on Saturday, January 18. Rohit Sharma will lead the Indian team in this ICC tournament. The name of the vice-captain surprised many people. 25 year old young Shubhman Gill has been made the vice-captain. A debate has erupted on this decision of the selector. Some people are in support of Gill while many people are not in favor of making him the vice captain. Krishnamachari Srikkanth, former Chief Selector of Team India and a part of the 1983 World Cup winning team, is also included in this list. He raised questions on Gill becoming the vice-captain and said what is so special about him.
After the announcement of Team India for the Champions Trophy, people were surprised about Gill. Ignoring other senior players, the selectors handed over a big responsibility to Gill. Krishnamachari Srikanth has also raised questions on this. He said about the young batsman on his YouTube channel, 'They suddenly made Gill the vice-captain. He has not done anything special in the last one year. If we look at his last 10 innings of ODI, there is nothing special in them. What is so special in him that he should be made the vice-captain? I am surprised'.
This is not the first time that Srikanth has become angry at Gill in this manner. Earlier recently, he had raised questions on Gill's failure in the Border Gavaskar Trophy. Gill's performance in the series against Australia was disappointing. Then Srikanth had said on his YouTube channel, 'Shubman Gill is in the team right now because he gets 10 chances and before that he fails in 9 and scores runs in the tenth. Because of that one innings, he gets 10 more chances to score runs.
Shubman Gill has proved himself in every format. He is seen as the future star of Team India. He has also scored a double century in ODI. In 47 ODIs, he has scored 2328 runs with the help of 6 centuries with the highest score of 208. However, Gill's bat has been silent in the last 10 ODI innings. He has scored only 342 runs.