'Shubman Gill Needs An Attitude Adjustment': Ex-Cricketer's Stunning Remark
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Brad Haddin criticizes India's catching in the first Test, calling it an 'attitude' problem. He suggests new skipper Shubman Gill needs to address this for a lasting legacy.
Brad Haddin believes India's catching issues in the first Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy were more than an on-off and instead an 'attitude' problem in the set-up. He feels that new skipper Shubman Gill requires and 'attitude adjustment' from the team if he has to leave a memorable legacy with his tenure.
India spilled as many as 10 catches at Headingley as England turned the tightly-contested match into an easy five-wicket victory to take a 1-0 lead in the series. Most of those drops came from young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant, but regular safe-hands like Ravindra Jadeja also faltered.
'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," Haddin said on the LiSTNR Podcast. 'And I think that is one legacy Gill has start to leave now on this team. He needs an attitude adjustment. 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," he added.
While India's batting coach Sitanshu Kotak brushed the incident aside as a rarity, former India great Ravichandran Ashwin attributed it to the difficulty in adjusting to the Duke's ball — harder and bigger than the one used in India, the SG — in cold conditions.
The retirements of seniors like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, and exits of Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane, have not only left the team in a batting transition but also uprooted the years-old slip cordon system.
'Lot of pressure'
Haddin also believes that come the second Test on Wednesday (July 2) at Edgbaston, India's top order will be under immense pressure because of the double failures of the middle and the lower order at Headingley.
'What hasn't happened for the first time is India's batting collapse. There's a lot of pressure on that top order. If you get through them, they will run through the remaining," said Haddin.
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