‘I hope he continues that’ – Rohit Sharma on Shubman Gill’s current form ahead of Test Championship final

The defending champions Gujarat Titans (GT) showed a dominant performance agaisnt Mumbai Indians (MI) in Qualifier 2 in Ahmedabad on Friday to register a 62-run win and advance to their second consecutive IPL final. Batting first, GT posted a mammoth total of 233 runs for the loss of 3 wickets and in reply, MI were bowled out for 171 runs in 18.2 overs.

The main highlight of the match was the century by the GT’s start batter Shubman Gill. The 23-year-old smashed his third century of the season as he got out after scoring 129 runs off 60 balls with seven fours and 10 sixes. With his fiery knock, Gill also became the highest run-scorer of the season with 851 runs from 16 matches at an average of 60.79 with four half-centuries and three hundreds.

The opposition skipper and the skipper of the Indian Cricket team, Rohit Sharma applauded GIll for his knock against his team. After that, Rohit also hopes that Gill continues his great form in the future as well, indirectly referring to the upcoming Test Championship final between India and Australia next month.

‘Shubman batted really well’ – Rohit Sharma

Gill is likely to be India’s first opening choice along with Rohit in the Test Championship final with KL Rahul getting ruled out due to a hamstring injury. The runners-up of the previous edition India will be taking on the Aussies for the second edition of the Test Championship Final at the Oval, London from June 7 to June 11.

“ It was a great total, Shubman batted really well. The wicket was really good. They got 25 extra, with the batting we had we were quite positive when we went in. Couldn’t stitch enough partnerships. Green and Surya batted well but we lost our way. We spoke about giving it a good crack, we lost a couple of wickets in the powerplay and did not get the momentum when chasing a target like that. We wanted one batter just like how Shubman batted till the end, and you never know – one side is shorter and the wicket was good, anything can happen, credit where it is due, Gujarat played well. We did not expect that, he had a bit of a concussion, I don’t know how it happened [on Ishan],” Rohit said at the post-match presentation.

‘All the bowling teams have been challenged this season, looking at what happened in the previous game, we had a great performance. Got to give credit to Shubman, he is in great form and I hope he continues that,” he further said with a smile.