‘Shubman’s Dream Batting Best In Last 3 Decades’: Sourav Ganguly Hails ‘Flawless’ Gill

‘Shubman’s Dream Batting Best In Last 3 Decades’: Sourav Ganguly Hails ‘Flawless’ Gill

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Last Updated: July 07, 2025, 19:40 IST

Captain Gill’s outstanding knocks in England have been garnering praise from the legends of the game. The latest one to join the bandwagon is former India captain Sourav Ganguly.

Sourav Ganguly lauds 'flawless' Shubman Gill

Just two Tests of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy are done, and three more to go, while Shubman Gill is already sitting on a pile of runs. The Indian Test captain has amassed close to 600 runs in four innings, averaging 146.25. After getting a century in Leeds, Gill hammered 269 in the first innings of the second Test and followed it up with a 161-ball 162 in the second. His heroics, along with Akash Deep’s 10-wicket haul, helped India clinch a series-levelling 336-run win – their first-ever at Edgbaston 19 attempts.

Captain Gill’s outstanding knocks in England have been garnering praise from the legends of the game. The latest one to join the bandwagon is former India captain Sourav Ganguly. Speaking to Revsportz, Ganguly called it the best batting performance he has ever seen on English soil in the last three decades.

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“Shubman is batting like a dream," said Ganguly. “See my tweet and you will know. In my three decades of playing and watching cricket in the UK, this is one of the best exhibitions of batting that I have seen. He is simply flawless. There are no chinks in his armour and the English bowlers don’t look like getting him out," he added.

“Gill isn’t making a single mistake. He was always pleasing to the eye. And now he is showing the hunger and the temperament. If you see him now, you will be left wondering how can he have an average of less than 50 in Test cricket," Ganguly further stated.

Gill is currently the top-scorer of the series with 585 runs in just two matches. He is just 18 runs short of becoming the most prolific Indian batter on an England tour in a single series, eyeing to shatter former captain Rahul Dravid’s long-standing record of 602 runs – in the tour of 2002.

Ganguly further highlighted that Gill did not stop at the century mark and kept at it, making it the most significant aspect of his batting.

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“The best thing about Shubman in this series is the determination to go big. “If you see, in every innings, he has gone big. A hundred isn’t really enough. He wants to get the double hundred, and that’s something fantastic to see," the former captain said.

With the series now levelled 1-1, India and England will shift bases to London to play the third Test of the series at the home of cricket – Lord’s. The match will begin on Thursday, July 10.

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First Published: July 07, 2025, 19:40 IST

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