Overview
- Gujarat Titans COO Colonel Arvinder Singh said Gill respected the selectors' call and predicted he will return "even stronger," speaking in a PTI-quoted virtual interaction linked to the Junior Titans programme.
- Gill was left out of India's 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup beginning February 7 in India and Sri Lanka after a lean stretch in the format.
- Selectors weighed recent returns—869 runs in 36 T20Is but only 291 in his last 15—and restored Sanju Samson to the top order after Gill's earlier reintroduction was judged to blunt India's attacking approach.
- Gill remains India's captain in Tests and ODIs and previously served as T20I vice-captain, underscoring the unusual cross-format divide in his current roles.
- Singh said batter Sai Sudharsan's rib issue is an abrasion rather than a fracture and that he will be fit for the IPL, and he framed Sherfane Rutherford's move to Mumbai Indians as a roster-balance and auction-strategy decision.