India, Sept. 12 -- Having taken over as Test skipper after the red-ball retirements of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill is also India's vice-captain at the ongoing 2025 Asia Cup. Gill is considered to be among the best batters in modern-day cricket and he also won the 2025 Champions Trophy as vice-captain.

Recently in a podcast on Apple Music, Gill spoke about his admiration for Sachin Tendulkar and Kohli. He named the pair as his two cricketing idols.

"I have had two idols. The first one was Sachin Tendulkar. He was my dad's favorite, and I actually got into cricket because of him. He retired in 2013, and around 2011-2013 was when I really started to understand cricket properly, not just the skills, but also the mental and ta...