Cricket is not just a game but the emotion, passion of both players and the fans. Cricket born in England, that is true but every single count to play it on the international level leaves with it like cricket is in there blood.
Every cricket player all over the world plays it with full of their dedication, passion and skill but some players few of the all are differentiates themselves overshadow others all over the world and became legends and favourite to everybody.
In that manner India always make it on with its greats of the game. Some of the also gets the nickname in cricketing community which becomes more famous with their growing career.
Today we are going to know about the Prince of Cricket given by Indian cricket team.
Shubman Gill is the Prince of Indian cricket, in his young international cricket career.
Born in Punjab, India on 8th September 1999, he is a right right-handed top order batsman with lots of skill, passion and dedication towards his game and team. He is playing for India in all three formats and newly appointed as the Test captain of Indian cricket team.
There are many more young talented cricketers coming up in in Indian cricket but every cricket lover and expert in not only in India but world cricket sees him as the true successor of the King of world cricket Virat Kohli.
He has been always seen as a true successor to Virat Kohli in Indian cricket reason is, the way he bats on the field and his passion and hunger to convert his numbers to high on the scoreboard.
He is appointed as the new test captain of Indian test team after retirement of former test captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli from the red ball cricket.
He is also vice captain of Indian ODI team and also led team India for few matches in T20Is.
He is the current captain of Gujrat Titans in Indian Premier League.
He is not only playing for the Indian team but also breaking old records and making new one’s. He recently won a historic match at Edgbaston, India leading in batting by making 200+ in 1st inning and 150+ in 2nd inning.
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Some Stats and Information about Shubman in all formats
- ODI debut for India – (ODI cap 227) 31 January 2019 Vs New Zealand
- Test debut for India – (Test cap 297) 26 December 2020 Vs Australia
- T20I debut for India – (T20I cap 101) 3 January 2023 Vs Sri Lanka
- Captaincy debut in T20IS – June 2024 Vs Zimbabwe winning the 5 match series by 4 matches and 1 loose.
- Captaincy debut in Tests – 20 June Vs England, the series is going on and the series is at 1-1.
| Format | M | Inn | NO | R | HS | 4s | 6s | 100s | 50s | Avg. | S. R. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T20I | 21 | 21 | 2 | 578 | 126* | 60 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 30.42 | 139.27 |
| ODI | 55 | 55 | 8 | 2775 | 208 | 313 | 59 | 8 | 15 | 59.04 | 99.56 |
| Test | 34 | 63 | 5 | 2478 | 269 | 273 | 43 | 8 | 7 | 42.72 | 62.71 |
| IPL | 118 | 115 | 17 | 3866 | 129 | 372 | 119 | 4 | 26 | 39.44 | 138.71 |
| First Class | 63 | 111 | 10 | 5172 | 269 | 600 | 80 | 17 | 19 | 51.20 | 67.67 |
| List A | 110 | 109 | 14 | 5039 | 208 | 542 | 100 | 14 | 26 | 53.04 | 94.39 |
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Just like the King, the Prince of cricket also took the responsibility of batting and leadership after becoming the captain.
Shubman Gill is in early stages of his career and it’s not right to compare him with King Kohli but we can only wish for his great Career to became a legend in his future.
