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'If you want to field well...': Shubman Gill asked to fix his attitude by former Australian cricketer after fielding woes in Headingley defeat
Former Australian cricketer Brad Haddin has offered valuable advice to India's new Test captain Shubman Gill on how he can help improve the team's fielding and it involves fixing their attitude. read more
Brad Haddin believes Shubman Gill can help improve India's fielding by bringing a shift in their attitude. Image: LiSTNR Sport on X/Reuters
Former Australian cricketer Brad Haddin has asked Shubman Gill to make an 'attitude adjustment' as the young Indian Test captain looks to leave a mark on the team. Gill has experienced a disastrous start to his Test captaincy career with the Indian cricket team as they lost the first Test against England by five wickets despite being the best side in the match for the majority of the game.
Indian batters passed the English challenge at Headingley, Leeds, with flying colours as they scored five centuries in the match, including one by Gill on his Test captaincy debut, but the lack of contributions from the lower order and some pretty ordinary bowling allowed England to escape with a victory.
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Haddin says Gill needs to fix attitude to improve fielding
Besides poor bowling, the Indian team also suffered due ot the buttery fingers of the fielders as seven catches were dropped by them in the match, including four from Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Former Australian wicketkeeper-batter feels Gill and his Indian team need to fix their attitude to improve the fielding standards. He added that great fielding has always been a feature of great teams.
'Every great team, no matter what year you're playing, the one stand out feature they've always had is that they've been a great fielding team. And I think that is one legacy Gill has start to leave now on this team. He needs an attitude adjustment,' Haddin told LiSTNR Sport podcast.
'If you want to field well and compete the whole time, it's only attitude. You can do all your technical work off the field and have as many coaches as anyone, but it won't matter. Even in the IPL this year, the catching was horrible. And that could be a byproduct.'
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Haddin also brought 14-year-old IPL sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi into the conversation as he said that everyone who aims to become one of the greatest players needs to have very high fielding standards.
'Take the young kid [Vaibhav Suryavanshi] from Rajasthan for example. Everyone is talking about how well he batted, and it was unbelievable. But if you're going to be a great player, he's got to work on his fielding, his presence in the game.
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'The one thing I would say to India is find a way to be the best fielding team in the world because you got the talent everywhere else,' he added.
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