India, Feb. 10 -- Legendary England batter Kevin Pietersen lavished praise on talented Indian batter Shubman Gill after his back-to-back half-centuries in the first two ODIs against Jos Buttler and Co. Despite a recent rough patch in red-ball cricket, Shubman has been performing consistently well in the 50-over format and played a crucial role in India's ODI series win over England. Indian skipper Rohit Sharma also labelled Shubman a classy player while talking about his 136-run partnership with him in the post-match presentation after the second ODI.

The 25-year-old, who has been elevated to the ODI vice-captaincy role recently, scored 60 runs off 52 balls on Sunday. He failed to get to the century mark and was dismissed by Jamie Overto...