Former India batter Mohammad Kaif commented on Team India star Shubman Gill after their defeat against New Zealand as well. However, India lost the three-match ODI series 1-2, and Gill was dropped from the T20I squad for the New Zealand series and the T20 World Cup 2026 as well.

“Shubman Gill is not in the T20 team. It is not his fault. He is a good player. But there was a lot of load put on him. He was not ready to bear all this. He has a certain capacity. There was a lot of weight on him. That is the reason he has been dropped now. He was just running from one place to another. This is equal to reducing his career. He is under pressure now, and it is affecting his batting in ODIs as well. He scored a fifty, but there was not the same fluency, and he always used to convert before,” Mohammad Kaif said on his YouTube channel.

However, Mohammad Kaif also slammed the management for making Shubman Gill with the 2027 World Cup approaching. He also shared how India rarely lost a bilateral series under Rohit Sharma as well.

“Under Rohit, many times we would be 2-0 and he would then try new players in the last game even if we lost, just to see them. We never lost the series at least. He never took bilaterals so seriously. He made a solid team in ICC events. It would have been smart to support him. Moving on from him was the wrong move. They wanted the credit of making the new team, making Gill captain. Behind all that, this New Zealand defeated us at home and went. Something that even a big captain like Kane Williamson could not do, Bracewell did that,” Mohammad Kaif concluded.