Shubman Gill banking on IPL 2022 to make the cut for T20 World Cup

Shubman Gill, who will be playing for the Gujarat Titans in the 2022 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), hopes to turn the upcoming season into an opportunity to make it to the Indian team for the T20 World Cup in Australia later this year. Gill previously played for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. "The players who do well in the IPL will have a great chance to make it to the T20 World Cup. I am also looking forward to it. If I do well in this IPL, then even I will have a chance to get selected for the (T20) World Cup and if I am able to do that, then I will be very happy," Gill told ANI. The talented batter has played 58 matches in the Indian Premier League since making his debut in this league in 2018, and this season he believes any team can win the title. "Definitely, all the ten teams have a chance. We have as much a chance to win the IPL as any other team, or I think we would take the IPL by storm because we have all the boxes ticked this year. Our team has proper batters, fast bowlers, genuine all-rounders ... It all boils down to how well we play on the field," Gill added.

After playing in the IPL under the leadership of Dinesh Karthik and 2019 ICC World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan, the lad from Punjab will be playing under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, who is leading an IPL side for the first time. "Definitely, when you think of Hardik as a captain, the first image which comes in your mind is as a player I have the freedom to express myself on the field and there is nothing more that you can ask from a captain. "If you have the freedom to express yourself the way that you want to play your game, if you have that freedom on the field, if your captain allows you to do that, there