The dramatic collapse of India on day 5 of the first test in Leeds sparked a serious debate around the captain of Shubman Gill, with the former English cricket players David Lloyd and Alastair Cook offering contrasting views. Despite a large part of the match, India died of a loss of five gates against England, putting the hosts a 1-0 lead in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series. Gill’s leadership, during his first major test assignment as a captain, was examined after the tactical errors of India and the sloppy terrain turned out to be expensive on the last day. David Lloyd, speaking about Sky Sports’ Podcast Stick To Cricket, criticized Gill’s approach. “The intrigue is with Shubman Gill, who is a very inexperienced skipper. How will he come back from there? He will delight Jadeja and Karun Nair, who are in their thirties. So, he has experience in his team. It is great to have a young team he has. But tactically, said.
However, the former captain of England Alastair Cook urged patience, establishing parallels in the first days of Ben Stokes as a skipper. “When you take over a team, there will always be a phase where the team will get used to the new leader. It happened with (Ben) stokes when it entered. It took a while (for the players of England) to get used to it when it entered and said:” We will try to break each ball, “replied Cook.
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The defeat of India was particularly surprising given five centuries in the two heats – by Rishabh Pant (twice), Kl Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Gill himself. However, collapses from 430/3 to 471 and 333/4 to 364, as well as abandoned sockets, allowed England to drive 371 under clouds with relative ease.