Overview
- Video from Carrara Oval showed Gautam Gambhir pulling Shubman Gill aside for a prolonged discussion during training ahead of the fourth T20I.
- The series is tied 1-1, Australia elected to field in the Gold Coast fixture, and India named an unchanged XI, keeping Gill at the top.
- Gill’s recent returns include ODI scores of 10, 9 and 24 on this tour and T20I scores of 37 not out, 5 and 15, extending a run of 13 innings without a T20I fifty.
- The ICC’s latest ODI batting rankings dropped Gill to No. 4, with New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell moving to No. 3 by a one-point margin.
- Shane Watson publicly backed Gill’s adaptability across formats, while Zaheer Khan urged freer play and Irfan Pathan flagged pressure from bench options Sanju Samson and Yashasvi Jaiswal.