Former Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) player Varun Aaron has said that Shubman Gill operated like a Rolls-Royce in the first T20I against Australia. He added that Gill didn’t have to play extravagant shots to maintain a strike rate of 185. However, the first T20I between India and Australia in Canberra on Wednesday, October 29, ended with no result. Gill scored an unbeaten 37 off 20 deliveries before rain halted play.

During an interaction on the Star Sports show ‘Follow the Blues,’ Aaron said, “It’s very easy for him to adapt because his technique is more or less the same. He doesn’t really change through formats. We obviously saw him put in a lot of hard yards before the England Test series. That gave him the rewards, and then to shift gears from one-day to T20 cricket in today’s day and age shouldn’t be difficult at all.”

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“We saw Shubman Gill just operating like a Rolls-Royce. Smooth as ever, just effortless, 185 strike rate. A lot of people in world cricket, we would see them stepping out and trying to hoick it over midwicket and play some big shots, but all Shubman does is just put it in the gaps,” he further added.

Speaking on Star Sports, former India wicketkeeper-batter Parthiv Patel also praised Shubman Gill for playing his innings perfectly.

“The way he was playing in the ODIs, although we judge people on the runs they score, in all three matches, it never seemed like he was in trouble. He actually plays like this. He took two runs off the first two balls. Then he tried to play a big shot. If a bowler goes towards a slower one in the powerplay very early, that means he is under pressure. Shubman knows very well how to score runs against a bowler under pressure. The thing I liked the most was that we saw big shots for sure, but the running between the wickets was incredible,” Parthiv Patel concluded.