India, Dec. 21 -- The runs hadn't been coming. But did anyone expect Shubman Gill to be dropped from India's 15-member T20 World Cup squad? The answer is probably no. The chorus was growing over the 26-year-old's inclusion in the squad as vice-captain earlier this year, a move that led to Sanju Samson and Rinku Singh being dropped from the playing XI. Gill had a lot to prove, despite being the poster boy of Indian cricket following the retirements of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma from Test cricket. Gill, who made the world his oyster in the five-match Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against England by amassing 754 runs, quickly found himself subjected to intense trolling on social media, mainly because he replaced Rohit as ODI captain and was pa...
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