On Day 1 of the fifth Test match against England, Team India skipper Shubman Gill lost his wicket in a miscommunication with the non-striker.
Despite losing his wicket, India`s assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate backed him by saying Gill made the batting look easy.
“I`m assuming not as frustrating as it is for him. He`s in the touch of his life. Again, today he made batting look really easy for the 40 minutes or whatever he was out there. But you know, these mistakes do happen. England actually bowled nicely in that little spell. And one of the things we did speak about in the breaks is how well we were accumulating because it didn`t look easy to hit boundaries there,” Doeschate told reporters.
The coach also said that, considering his performances in the four concluded Test matches, the coaching staff will let Gill get away with the dismissal.
“And I thought all the batters today accumulated really well around the stumps. I guess it`s getting that balance right of trying to keep the pressure on the bowlers and the fielders, and taking the runs where you can. But that`s a misjudgment of a run. And I think given what he`s done in the first four tests, we`ll let him get away with that one,” he said.
Facing 35 balls, Shubman Gill scored 21 runs, with the help of four boundaries.
Despite a decent outing, Gill had enough runs under his belt to surpass the record of legendary Sunil Gavaskar for the most runs by an Indian captain in a Test series.
In 1978-79, Gavaskar scored 732 runs during a home series against the West Indies. In the ongoing series, Gill has so far registered 737 runs in nine innings at an average of 92.12, with four centuries in nine innings and his best score of 269.
Later, Karun Nair played an unbeaten knock of 52 runs, including seven boundaries. His knock came in 98 balls, and the right-hander will look to convert his half-century into a big score.
Along with him, Washington Sundar is still unbeaten at the crease with a score of 19 runs. Facing 45 balls, he has smashed two boundaries.
Team India posted a total of 204 runs for the loss of six wickets on Day 1 at stumps.
(With ANI Inputs)