Dinesh Karthik slams Shubman Gill for playing an ‘ordinary shot’ after dismissal in 3rd BGT 2024-25 Test

Former Indian wicket-keeper bat Dinesh Karthik criticized Shubman Gill after his dismissal on the third day of the third Test match against Australia at the Gabba, Brisbane. Gill chased a wide delivery from Mitchell Starc but he was caught brilliantly at gully by Mitchell Marsh.

The right-hander was dismissed after scoring only one run. Karthik said Gill has got the experience under his belt and he would be disappointed with his shot selection.

India lost four wickets on the third day’s play for only 51 runs with Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant managing single-digit scores.

“Shubman Gill has played a very ordinary shot, There’s no mincing words here. For a No. 3 batsman, who has been around for so long, he’s played a very very ordinary shot. I know he will go and look at it and say, ‘no, that wasn’t right. That is not acceptable by a team that is backing me to do well at No. 3’. Let’s be honest, the Indian batting, as a group, hasn’t fired for some time now,” Karthik commented on Cricbuzz.

Karthik feels Gill’s liking of pushing at the ball is bringing about his downfall and he must correct the technical flaw in his batting.

“I feel Shubman Gill has definitely got a slight technical error, which is pushing at the ball. When you play a lot of white ball cricket, you end up doing that. Even a Travis Head does it, but he has found his method of doing that. Players like Shubman Gill are somewhere caught in the trap of the way they bat in India to the way they bat outside.”

Gill hasn’t been at his best while playing in the overseas conditions and he hasn’t gone past the 40-run mark since scoring a match-winning 91 at the Gabba, Brisbane on the 2020-21 tour of Australia.

At lunch on day four, India were 167-6, still needing another 79 runs to avoid the follow-on.