{"id":244312,"date":"2025-02-22T06:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T06:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/ricky-ponting-backs-shubman-gill-as-future-india-captain-hails-him-as-big-game-player\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T06:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T06:19:19","slug":"ricky-ponting-backs-shubman-gill-as-future-india-captain-hails-him-as-big-game-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/ricky-ponting-backs-shubman-gill-as-future-india-captain-hails-him-as-big-game-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Ponting Backs Shubman Gill As Future India Captain, Hails Him As ‘Big-Game Player’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legendary Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting termed opener Shubman Gill as a \u201cvery driven\u201d person who understands his path and marked him as the future captain of India.<\/p>\n

Gill, currently the ODI vice-captain, is in red-hot form in 50-over format and made a bright beginning to the ongoing Champions Trophy with a hundred in India\u2019s six-wicket win over Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve had a chance to catch up over the last couple of years, particularly around the IPL season. I like his demeanour. He seems like a very driven guy who wants to be the best that he possibly can be with batting and also as far as leadership’s concerned,\u201d Ponting told ICC Review.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just seems like a really nice character. A really softly spoken guy, very driven for what he wants to achieve in the game,\u201d Ponting said.<\/p>\n

The former Australian captain said the one-day format suits Gill\u2019s style of batting, and hoped the 25-year-old will soon translate that success into Test cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s been a very, very good international player for a number of years. He hasn’t sort of transferred that over into Test Match cricket yet, but his white ball cricket over the last three or four years has been outstanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, he’s a big game player as well. He’s played really well in IPLs over the last couple of years, obviously being captain of his franchise,\u201d said Ponting.<\/p>\n

Ponting, a two-time 50-over World Cup winning captain, then explained why Gill has been excellent in ODI cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think that the white ball game really suits his style of play. He can come out and be nice and aggressive early on in the power play with the field up, get some boundaries away early by playing good, naturally aggressive cricketing shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s not a big hitter, he’s not anyone that goes out there and tries to do anything outside of the way that he can naturally play. He just scores boundaries almost at will against fast bowling, against the white ball,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

(This report has been published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. Apart from the headline, no editing has been done in the copy by ABP Live.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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