Not Rohit Sharma Or Virat Kohli! Shubman Gill Reveals Dream Opening Partner

23.04.2023 - 04:45 sports.ndtv.com

India and Gujarat Titans batter Shubman Gill on Saturday chose Sachin Tendulkar as his dream opening partner in cricket. In a Q&A interaction at Jio cinema, when asked who would be his dream opening pair, he answered that he wanted to open with Sachin. "Sachin Tendulkar," he said.

Shubman in this year's IPL has scored 228 in six matches with an average of 32.74 comprising two fifties. He has the best score of 67 and has a strike rate of 138.18.

When he was asked to describe Hardik Pandya's captaincy in one word, he said that Pandya's captaincy is electric. Hardik in his first captaincy of the IPL won the trophy in the year 2022.

In 14 matches last year, GT won ten matches and later won the qualifiers and final of IPL. The GT opener said that his favourite IPL moment was, "When GT won the maiden title of IPL last year." He further added that his favourite innings were a knock of 96 off 59 balls which he played against Punjab Kings in 2022.

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