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India Gazette
01-07-2025
- Sport
- India Gazette
"England will play Bumrah carefully, Bazball everyone else...": Ravichandran Ashwin
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Former Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin believes England will focus on playing cautiously against Jasprit Bumrah while aggressively targeting other bowlers as part of their 'Bazball' approach during the Test series against India. 'It's not about how many overs Jasprit Bumrah will bowl. It's about how we keep the pressure on if Bumrah isn't bowling. So this game is very straightforward, 'We will play Bumrah carefully and then Bazball everyone else'. That is pretty much what England will do,' Ashwin said, according to India lost the Leeds Test despite five of their batters scoring centuries. Only once before has a team lost a Test after registering four hundreds. Australia against England in Melbourne (1928). The second Test begins Wednesday. England's 371-run chase against India in the first test now stands as their second-highest successful pursuit in Test history. Ashwin said that as a bowling unit, India should make strategies to play some defensive cricket. 'So, as a bowling unit, we should make strategies to play some defensive, negative cricket. The kind of wickets England are making, we should play negative, defensive cricket and ask our bowlers to contain them more,' he added. Ashwin felt 'going for the wickets', be it Test cricket or T20 cricket, is all a lie, and pressure gives you wickets. 'The whole point of 'going for the wickets', be it Test cricket or T20 cricket, is all a lie. Pressure gives you wickets. When a bowler keeps a batter at one end for 10 balls and then delivers a good ball, that's what we call rhythm. You have to put the batters under pressure without giving runs, bottling him up. Testing his technique inside out. So if India wants to win the second Test, play Bumrah, even Kuldeep Yadav and make sure the rest of the bowlers are bottling one end up,' Ashwin added. England needed 350 runs in the fourth innings to seal the match, and they did it comfortably in 82 overs. With this win, England go 1-0 up in the five-match test series. India, led by Shubman Gill, will take on Ben Stokes's England in the second of the five-match Test series (Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy) at Edgbaston in Birmingham starting from Wednesday. (ANI)
News18
28-06-2025
- Sport
- News18
'I'll Be Disappointed If Gill...': Ravi Shastri Makes Bold Prediction
Last Updated: Shubman Gill made his Test captaincy debut for India in Leeds on June 20 and scored a century in the first innings. Shubman Gill made his Test captaincy debut for India on June 20 against England in Leeds. In the match played at Headingley from June 20 to 24, he scored 147 runs in the first innings as the No. 4 batter. But despite his good show with the bat, the Indian team suffered a humiliating defeat by five wickets against the Ben Stokes-led side. Former Indian head coach Ravi Shastri has made a bold prediction for the 25-year-old right-handed batter from Punjab and said that he will be disappointed if Gill doesn't make a big name for himself. 'I'll be disappointed if Gill doesn't go places. Languid, lazy elegance, and he's got a regal element of being regal out there when he's batting. If he can learn with exposure and adapt to conditions, I think that's the one name I can see," he said, speaking to 'He's matured a lot. The way he handles the media and the way he talks at press conferences and tosses—he's matured a lot. Let him be there for three years. Don't chop and change irrespective of what happens in the series. Stick with him for three years, and I think he will deliver for you," he added. Gill's record for India Since making his international debut for India against New Zealand in Hamilton on January 31, 2019, Gill has played 33 Tests, 55 ODIs, and 21 T20Is. He has 2048 runs to his name in the five-day format of the game and has scored 2775 runs in ODIs. Gill is the youngest batter to score a double century in the 50-over of the game. Gill came out to bat at No. 4 for India in the first innings of the first Test and scored 147 runs from 227 balls with the help of 19 fours and one six. He is the fifth Indian captain after Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, and Virat Kohli to score a century on his Test debut. First Published: June 28, 2025, 23:30 IST
Indian Express
28-06-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
I'll be disappointed if Gill doesn't go places: Ravi Shastri
Shubman Gill, as the captain of the Indian Test side, has lost the first game by five wickets against England at Leeds in Headingly. Taking the reins in the absence of experienced veterans like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, Gill has been handed over a stern first assignment to play a five-match Test series against England. Former Indian coach Ravi Shastri, despite the disappointment in the first Test, it would be a surprise if Gill does not go places in a few years. 'I'll be disappointed if Gill doesn't go places. Languid, lazy elegance, and he's got a regal element of being regal out there when he's batting. If he can learn with exposure and adapt to conditions, I think that's the one name I can see,' he said, speaking to 'He's matured a lot. The way he handles the media, the way he talks at press conferences, at tosses, he's matured a lot. Let him be there for three years. Don't chop and change irrespective of what happens in the series. Stick with him for three years and I think he will deliver for you,' the former India head coach reckoned.' Shastri added. With India claiming 38.5% of ICC's total revenue share for the 2024-27 cycle, former player Shastri defended the decision saying India should get an even bigger share considering their contribution to the cricket body's revenue. 'I would want more because most of the money that's generated comes from India. So it's only fair that they get their share of pound of flesh. It's relative, it's economies, if tomorrow there might be another economy that's stronger. Money might come from there like it did in the 70s, 80s and the chunk of the money went somewhere else. So I think it's only fair and, it just shows in the revenues,' Shastri said on Wisden. 'When India travel, look at the television rights, look at the television income that comes for an India series. So it's only fair that they get. Whatever they're getting now, if not more,' he added.
