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How Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill became T20I’s most destructive opening pair

It is an old low-fi video. Two fresh-faced teenagers, all life and giggles, talking about the bromance, the first meeting, cheat-meal pizzas before matches, smearing cake on Rahul Dravid’s face, cracking teenage jokes, as comfortable in each other’s company as only teenagers could be. Seven eventful years have passed since Wisden shot the interview, just before the U-19 World Cup of 2018. Gill has inherited the mantle of India’s batting legacy from Virat Kohli, he is his country’s Test captain; Abhishek Sharma has seized the imagination of the T20 globe; he is amongst the most feared and natural six-hitters in the world.

The worlds and roads diverged, before they met again in Dubai, as though bound by an irrevocable destiny that wants them together. Nothing seemed to change, they seemed once again the teenagers they once were. They first met in an U-14 camp. Abhishek did not take particular notice of Gill, he says in the video. Gill, though, noticed Abhishek’s ability to clear the fence. Both got picked in the team, and the calm boy from Fazilka and the vibrant one from Amritsar struck a warm bond. They roomed and dined together, planned pranks together. went for movies together, stood firmly behind each other through thick and thin. Their backgrounds were different–Gill came from an affluent farming family; Abhishek had more middle-class forebears. But both had fathers that encouraged their sons’ cricketing afflictions. Yoked by the love for the game and batting, their bond strengthened. “I cannot describe our friendship. We strike off well, we are happy in each other’s company and success,” Abhishek told Sunrisers Hyderabad website.

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