{"id":162527,"date":"2026-05-02T20:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=162527"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:27:57","slug":"t20-cricket-may-not-be-shubman-gills-natural-format-sanjay-manjrekar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=162527","title":{"rendered":"T20 cricket may not be Shubman Gill\u2019s natural format: Sanjay Manjrekar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70932360\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">2026 has been a year of reckoning for Shubman Gill in T20 cricket. The Gujarat Titans opener and skipper started the year as India\u2019s T20 vice-captain, but a series of low scores resulted in him being dropped ahead of the T20 World Cup, and raised questions about his suitability to the shortest format of the game.<\/p>\n<p>He is now captaining Gujarat Titans in IPL 2026, where he has scored 373 runs at an average of 46.63 with a strike rate of 155.42 in IPL 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Former Indian batter Sanjay Manjrekar believes that T20s may not be the natural format for the Indian Test captain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_embed article-block-item\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58JRdBRAbIk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen he started to play for KKR at the top of the order, when he started compiling good T20 innings, I saw an effort from his side to be an impactful T20 player. But that is not his natural game, his natural game is Test cricket. When we saw him in England, that was the best of Shubman Gill, unlike an Abhishek Sharma,\u201d he said on        <i>Sportstar\u2019s <\/i><b>Inside Edge<\/b> podcast.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-impact-player-rule-ashutosh-washington-dube-sanjay-manjrekar-quotes\/article70931888.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact Player rule hasn\u2019t worked in Indian conditons: Sanjay Manjrekar<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Mumbai batter further reminisced about Gill\u2019s growth in Indian cricket over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Rahul Dravid was the coach of the Indian Under-19 cricket team, Prithivi Shaw was touted to be the star in the U-19 cricket team. When asked about it, Rahul Dravid used to say he is not even the best player in the team. There is a guy named Shubman Gill, he\u2019s better, and then Gill showed his class,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted the influence Gill\u2019s father, Lakhwinder Singh, had on his game, saying, \u201cHe\u2019s a hard-core cricketer, who follows his son\u2019s cricket very closely. He\u2019s the purest kind of cricket fan, so someone Shubman Gill has a kind of purity to his game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 02, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-shubman-gill-t20-cricket-india-gujarat-titans-natural-game-sanjay-manjrekar-quotes\/article70932360.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 has been a year of reckoning for Shubman Gill in T20 cricket. The Gujarat Titans opener and skipper started the year as India\u2019s T20 vice-captain, but a series of low scores resulted in him being dropped ahead of the T20 World Cup, and raised questions about his suitability to the shortest format of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VIS_1769.JPG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-Ghp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}