Shubman Gill’s post-match conference after the win at Edgbaston was quite special. As soon as he entered the hall, he enquired about the English journalist, who had reminded Gill about India’s woeful record at the venue — where until a couple of days back, the team had never won a Test.
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“I can’t see my favourite journalist. Where is he? I wanted to see him,” Gill had said. That journalist was BBC’s Joe Wilson, who has now finally come up with his version of the story. “What the captain said, very sensibly, was that if you look back to the 1960s, 1970s, even 1980s, let’s say, there was a different feel to the Indian team when they travelled abroad,” he told RevSportz.
“There was no expectation from them to win. Now, they do have the expectation to win. So, maybe that was just statistics, in terms of history. Maybe, it was a motivation. Because, We lost count of records that Shubman himself and India broke. How to get Shubman out that would be the no. 1,” Joe Wilson further added.
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When being questioned about, if we would say the same before the Lord’s Test too, Wilson had a surprising answer. “I would say anything to motivate him, may be who knows. I think he is a real gentleman. he answers every question with great dignity. We love to talk about statistics, don’t we. It was fun.”
India’s squad: Shubman Gill (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav.
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