Kolkata, April 23 -- Cricket is a rapidly changing landscape but Shubman Gill nudges you to believe that it's not for the worse. In an era where bats are being randomly tested by umpires, Gill excites the traditionalists with the use of his bottom hand, the short arm jab and the ridiculously well-executed leg-side swipe of sixth stump deliveries.
At a time when batting is all too dizzyingly buccaneering, he is the secret ingredient to a failsafe consistency that even Brendon McCullum would yearn for. He is also an example of why numbers shouldn't always be allowed to dictate the narrative.
KKR would know. Throughout his stint with them, Gill's strike rate was 123, not marauding but still with 10 fifties in 55 innings he was the sort of gu...