New Delhi. 24 year old Shubhman Gill can be considered the ‘most consistent performer’ of the last three seasons of IPL. This right-handed batsman has scored 450+ in all three seasons from 2021 to 2023. In the current season, the responsibility of captaining the Gujarat Titans team also rests on Gill’s shoulders, but the pressure of leadership has not seemed to affect his batting. In 6 matches of IPL 2024, Gill has so far scored 255 runs at an average of 51.00 and strike rate of 151.78 and is ranked among the top 5 batsmen of the season. The most important thing is that Gill’s runs are helping the team win.
It is really enjoyable to watch Shubman’s batting. Like most batsmen playing T20, his shots are not of power but of ‘pure timing’. As soon as the ball comes in contact with the bat, it is seen going out of the boundary. With his charming style of batting, Gill is successful in hitting even sixes with ease. Gill has been among the top 8 batsmen of IPL for the last three seasons. In 2022 and 2023, he made it to the top 5.
The team of Gujarat Titans, which has been reaching the finals in the last two seasons of IPL and became champion in 2022, has become weak this time due to the absence of Hardik Pandya and Mohammed Shami. While Hardik has joined MI, Shami is in recovery mode after undergoing heel surgery. In such a situation, Gill has a tough challenge to make the GT team successful with skilled leadership, which Gill fulfilled on Wednesday with 44 balls. But played an inning of 72 runs and laid the foundation of GT’s victory.
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Best performance in IPL 2023, won Orange Cap
Gill’s best performance so far came in IPL 2023 when, playing for GT, he remained unbeaten twice in 17 matches and scored 890 runs at an average of 59.33 and strike rate of 157.8, which included three centuries. With this brilliant performance, he captured the Orange Cap but could not come close to Virat Kohli’s record of most centuries and runs in a season. Virat had scored 973 runs with the help of four centuries in IPL 2016. Apart from Kohli, Jos Buttler of Rajasthan Royals has also scored four centuries in one season.
483 runs were scored in the 2022 season
In IPL 2022, Gujarat Titans (GT) did the miracle of becoming champion in its debut year itself, in which Shubman Gill, worth Rs 8 crore, also had an important contribution. He scored 483 runs in 16 matches at an average of 34.5 and strike rate of 132.32 and was the second most successful batsman of GT after captain Hardik Pandya. His position was 5th among the batsmen who scored most runs in the season.
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478 runs in 2021 season
Shubhman was a member of the Kolkata Knight Riders team in the 2021 season of IPL. He became the highest run-scorer for KKR by scoring 478 runs in 17 matches at a strike rate of 118.9. He was the only batsman of the team to score more than 400 runs in the season. Not only this, even in the 2020-21 IPL season under the shadow of Corona epidemic, Gill scored 440 runs in 14 matches at an average of 33.84 and strike rate of 117.96.
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Played in IPL for the first time in 2018
Till now, Gill has scored less than 400 runs in the first two seasons of his IPL journey. Gill, the vice-captain of the Indian team that won the 2018 Under-19 World Cup, made his debut in the IPL this year. In his first IPL season, he scored 203 runs in 13 matches and 296 runs in 2019. Shubman, who has been playing in the Indian Premier League since 2018, has played 97 matches so far for KKR and GT and has scored 3045 runs at an average of 38.54 and strike rate of 135.39. During this period, three centuries have come from his bat. (*Record till 24th match of IPL 2024)
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 11, 2024, 08:26 IST