Former India player Parthiv Patel felt that Shubman Gill was unlucky to get out for a duck on day one of the Chennai Test against Bangladesh as well. However, Gill was dismissed by Hasan Mahmud as he tried to play a ball down the leg side. Gill would get a bit of bat on the ball and it went straight into the hands of Litton Das as well.

“I think he was unlucky. When you get out down the leg side, it is a bit of an instinctive shot. His game plan is to stay ahead of the popping crease. He stays almost half ahead of the popping crease. He tries to negotiate that swing or seam, which a bowler is getting. But in cricket we say there are two unluckiest dismissals. One is to get run out at the non striker and or or you get out down the legside and caught behind and that’s exactly what happened with Shubman Gill,” said Parthiv.

However, Parthiv Patel also said that a batter usually doesn’t leave such a delivery down the leg side and he also felt the bat would just went there in an attempt to get a boundary.

“You don’t really leave that ball. Once you see that ball going down the leg side, your bat instinctively goes there and sometimes you know if you get a slightly better part of the bat, you may get it to a boundary. But otherwise, this time I thought Shubman was unlucky that he got a faint edge,” concluded Parthiv Patel.