Former India player Murali Karthik was not convinced by newly appointed Test captain Shubman Gill’s leadership in the first Test encounter against England. India failed to defend 371 runs in the fourth innings as they faced a 5-wicket loss. Kartik said that Gill lacked authority on his debut as India’s Test captain, and he explained that the appointed captain needs to take charge, and senior players should just give suggestions.

“We can look for excuses but the problem is that we scored 835 runs, one bowler picked up five wickets and despite that India lost the game by five wickets. I felt as if there were too many captains. I could not understand that. Sometimes KL Rahul was suggesting things, Rishabh Pant was suggesting things, Shubman Gill was doing it too, who is the actual appointed captain. I could not understand these signals being made. There is one captain,” Karthik said on Cricbuzz.

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“I understand that if a senior player sees someone out of the place once or twice they make suggestions but it kept happening again and again ,which is not a good sign,” he further added.

However, Shubman Gill’s tactics in the first Test against England have faced criticism after their five-wicket loss, with former captain  Nasser Hussain stating that he “didn’t quite have the on-field aura of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli”.

“I saw someone finding his way. He (Gill) didn’t quite have that on-field aura of Rohit and (Virat Kohli). I thought he followed the ball a lot and was reactive rather than proactive,” Hussain said on Sky Sports. “When Rohit and Kohli captained, you looked down and you immediately knew who was in charge but when I looked down in this game I saw two or three captains, captaincy by committee.”