Former India keeper-batter Dinesh Karthik slammed Shubman Gill for getting dismissed by playing a poor shot on Day 3 of The Gabba Test on Monday, December 16. Karthik shared that Gill’s manner of dismissal was unacceptable as well. Responding to Australia’s first innings total of 445, India were at 51-4 on Day 3 of the Brisbane Test. Gill was out for one off three after playing a loose drive to a full delivery angled across him by leftarm pacer Mitchell Starc as well.

During a discussion on Cricbuzz, Karthik slammed Shubman Gill over his choice of stroke as well. He also urged the player to do some soul-searching, considering that he has been batting at the pivotal No. 3 position in Test cricket.

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“Shubman Gill has played a very ordinary shot, There’s no mincing words here. For a No. 3 batsman, who has been around for so long, he’s played a very very ordinary shot. I know he will go and look at it and say, ‘no, that wasn’t right. That is not acceptable by a team that is backing me to do well at No. 3’. Let’s be honest, the Indian batting, as a group, hasn’t fired for some time now,” Karthik commented.

Karthik also claimed that there’s a technical issue with Shubman Gill, as a result of which he ends up pushing at deliveries as well.

“I feel Shubman Gill has definitely got a slight technical error, which is pushing at the ball. When you play a lot of white ball cricket, you end up doing that. Even a Travis Head does it, but he has found his method of doing that. Players like Shubman Gill are somewhere caught in the trap of the way they bat in India to the way they bat outside,” Dinesh Karthik concluded.