Indian cricket crew star KL Rahul backed teammate Shubman Gill to attain massive after he was dismissed cheaply on Day 2 of the primary Test match towards England on Friday. Gill appeared to attain shortly however ended up gifting his wicket to Tom Hartley after scoring simply 23 runs. However, Rahul identified that Gill is a top-class cricketer who can play spin properly and mentioned that that is one thing that may occur to any batter. With Yashasvi Jaiswal opening with Rohit Sharma, Gill has been given the No. 3 batting slot however his efficiency within the new place has not been passable prior to now few matches.

“He (Gill) is a top-class cricketer. He does play spin really, really well. We’ve seen that in white-ball cricket. It’s about time that, he learnt from it,” Rahul mentioned on Jio Cinema.

“I mean, you know, I’m sure he didn’t want to get himself into a situation where he had to go over the top or had to had to play a shot just to break free. But yeah, that happens to all batters. And I’m sure he’s already there thinking about what he’ll do in the next one,” the India star added.

Ravindra Jadeja’s two-layered fifty and KL Rahul’s mastery have been on the coronary heart of India’s 421 for seven, a complete which positioned them a number of miles forward of England after the second day’s play of the primary Test.

Jadeja (81 batting) and Axar Patel (35 batting), who added 63 runs for the unbroken eighth-wicket stand, are on the crease at stumps.

India’s lead has now swelled to 175 runs, and England would discover it powerful to wipe that out as soon as their flip to bat come on third day.

(With PTI inputs)