IND vs Eng: Shubman Gill’s team shows that it is ready to move ahead of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma

How will India face Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli? This was an overriding point of discussion throughout the build-up for the England test series. The consensus was that the Indian batting lineup lacked experience to deal with English conditions, and it would be completely up to Bumrah to keep Shubman Gill’s team alive in the Test series. This can still be well well, but what we saw on Friday on the first day of the first Test in Headingley was that the things are probably more bright than as far away. If we look back in the last two test series against New Zealand in the house and Australia-India had lost 0-3 and 1-3 respectively-to miss a WTC in the last place in the bar, we will see that the weak links in the batting lineup were Kohli and Rohit. He managed 93 in six innings against New Zealand. Rohit’s Australia Agiget was scoring 31 runs in five innings, while against Kiwi he scored 91 runs in six innings. With such a wretched number 1 and number 4 in such a wretched form for so long, it meant that the rest of the batsmen to deliver the Onas, and they often appeared to bake under all the pressure.

On Friday, it seemed that India was suddenly free from “luggage”, some Captain Gill hinted at the eve of the Test match on Thursday. The initial partnership of KL Rahul and Yashsvi Jaiswal showed discipline that we have not seen with Rohit in recent times. Mumbai right hand, towards the back-end of his test career, had completely lost confidence in his defense and always wanted to get out of trouble, which often proved to be a counter-producer. This was exactly what Jaiswal and Rahul did not do on Friday, as they scored 91 runs for the first wicket. The pair was ready to wait and chose the right balls to hit, something that the Indian team missed on the top of the order for a while. While Jaiswal and Rahul left enough evidence that we would not miss Rohit too much in this format, Gill at number 4 showed that he was able to pick up from where Kohli left.Quiz: Who is that IPL player? As Kohli, 12 years ago, Sachin took over from Sachin Tendulkar in South Africa and did not allow India to feel the absence of the younger guru, it was Gill’s turn to bring a sense of assurance that the Indian middle-order had a late decrease. Gill did not try to become a binding front-out player, which made things a little difficult for Virat at the back of his Test career. The new captain was ready to play late-an important old school method of success in England-a rule book in 2014 was released by Kohli after his struggle against James Anderson. The whole story, however, has not been written yet. It is a long chain and will be upset on the way. To prove that they are ready to take the fight forward for a new Indian team, Gill and their bands to prove.