After Rohit Sharma retired from Test cricket, Shubman Gill was appointed the captain of the Indian Test team. He will start his captaincy from the upcoming Test series against England. After he was given the responsibility of the Test team, veteran cricketers supported him. Meanwhile, Shikhar Dhawan has also reacted, saying that this batsman from Punjab is the perfect candidate to captain India in red-ball cricket.
Shikhar Dhawan expressed confidence in Shubman Gill, saying that the young batsman did well in the IPL and has also played a lot of cricket for India.
He is the perfect candidate – Shikhar Dhawan
Dhawan said,
‘𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑰𝑷𝑳. 𝑯𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅. 𝑯𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔. 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆, 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒚. 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 – 𝑮𝒆𝒏 𝒁 – 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒐 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒋𝒐𝒃. 𝑴𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎.’
Apart from this, he has supported the five-time champion Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025. He said that this time, IPL has been very exciting. My support for the final will be with the Mumbai Indians. MI is playing well. The way they have gained momentum is fantastic. They are a strong and balanced team. Therefore, I am with the Mumbai Indians.
Talking about MI, they have made it to Qualifier-2 by defeating Shubman Gill-led Gujarat Titans in the Eliminator. Hardik Pandya’s team will face the Punjab Kings on June 2. The Shreyas Iyer-led team had to face defeat against RCB in Qualifier-1. Now they would like to take full advantage of their second opportunity to make it to the final of IPL 2025.
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