Shubman Gill played an inning of 50 runs in the pink ball practice match against PM XI.
The Indian team suffered a big blow before the start of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 against Australia when Shubman Gill was ruled out due to injury just before the Perth Test match. After this, Team India showed excellent performance in the first match and won it by 295 runs. At the same time, before the second match of this series to be played at Adelaide ground which will be played with pink ball, a good news has also come, in which Shubman Gill is certain to return to the playing 11. Before the Adelaide Test match, Team India got an excellent innings with the bat against Prime Minister’s XI in the 2-day practice match played at Canberra Manuka Oval Stadium.
Gill retired after playing an inning of 50 runs and returned to the pavilion hurt.
The first day’s play of the practice match against Prime Minister’s XI was canceled due to rain, after which both the teams decided to play 50-50 overs on the second day. After which, during the batting of PM XI on the second day, there was interruption of rain and the match became 46-46 overs. PM XI’s team was limited to 240 runs in this match. After this, Jaiswal and Rahul made a partnership of 75 runs for the first wicket. After this, after Rahul retired and returned to the pavilion, Gill came to bat at number 3 position and played an excellent inning of 50 runs in 62 balls which included 7 fours. Gill appeared completely fit during his batting and due to this, it is now almost certain that Shubman Gill will be seen back in the playing 11 in the second Test match to be held in Adelaide.
Reddy and Sundar also showed amazing performance in batting.
While Gill managed to score a half-century in the match against PM XI, Nitish Reddy and Washington Sundar also managed to do wonders with the bat. Both Reddy and Sundar played innings of 42-42 runs. Now after seeing the performance of both these players, their place in the playing 11 in the Adelaide Test match is considered almost certain. We will see the return of Gill and captain Rohit Sharma.
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