Michael Vaughan says Shubman Gill didn’t look calm in 2nd innings of Lord’s Test

Former England opener Michael Vaughan reckons Indian captain Shubman Gill looked tentative in the second innings of the third Test match against England at Lord’s. Gill was dismissed after scoring only six runs in the final 30 minutes of the day’s play.

The Indian captain was plumbed in front of the wickets by Brydon Carse, who also dismissed Karun Nair. Gill was also dismissed after scoring 16 runs in the first innings.

The flamboyant batter played and missed a couple of shots and looked shaky against the England bowlers.

“Brydon Carse bowled a fantastic spell. That wasn’t the Shubman Gill that batted at Headingley and Edgbaston. I think there must be two of them, because for the first time in the series, he played and missed at four deliveries out of nine deliveries. He looked not the calm Gill that I have seen throughout the Test match series so far, and that is just the pressure of this Test match,” Vaughan said on Cricbuzz.

On the other hand, Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed for a blob in the second innings by Jofra Archer while attempting a pull shot but could only get a top edge. Former Indian wicket-keeper bat Dinesh Karthik feels Jaiswal came up with an aggressive mindset against Archer, who had dismissed him with a jaffa in the first innings.

“You’ve gotten out to an absolute jaffa to a bowler and you have thought about it a lot, and you have said, ‘Okay, I’m going to take him on, if his gives it short, I am going to pull it, and play that statement shot’. I think Jaiswal came in with that mindset, because a calm Yashasvi or the Yashasvi that played in Edgbaston or Leeds would have said he would have just gone bang cut, because it was a cut ball, at best. I think his ego was probably hurt a little with the way he got out (in the first innings),” Dinesh Karthik explained.

India ended the day’s play at 58-4 and need another 135 runs to win the third Test.