Overview
- The Ajit Agarkar-led selection panel left Gill out of India’s T20 World Cup squad, with reports pointing to poor recent returns and a below-par strike rate.
- Ponting said he “couldn’t believe” the call and argued the snub underscores the depth of Indian cricket.
- Gill played 15 T20Is in 2025 for 291 runs without a fifty, with a top score of 47 after being made T20I vice-captain in September.
- In the South Africa series he scored 4, 0 and 28, then missed two matches, one abandoned for fog and one after a toe injury in the nets.
- Sanju Samson replaced him in the final T20I and hit 37 off 22 balls after earlier being benched despite three T20I centuries in 2024.