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Aakash Chopra Pinpoints Unique Similarity Between Shubman Gill And Virat Kohli 

Shubman Gill with Virat Kohli (X.com)Shubman Gill with Virat Kohli (X.com)

Former cricketer turned commentator, Aakash Chopra has picked 25-year old rising star, Shubman Gill as one of the three top young talents. He also highlighted the right-hand batter's biggest quality as a cricketer that is very similar to Virat Kohli.

Gill, who currently leads the Gujarat-based IPL franchise, Gujarat Titans has been a go-to player of the Indian cricket team. Unluckily he missed out on the 2024 T20 World Cup squad due to his poor form, however he was shouldered with the responsibility to lead India during their tour of Zimbabwe, where India won 4-1.

While drawing similarities between Shubman and cricketing icon Virat Kohli, Chopra stated that he also understands the pulse of the game very well.

“The biggest quality of Shubman is that he understands the pulse of the game. Some players are very quick to understand. Some understand eventually. Some never understand. So, the greats you see, they understand very quickly. So, Virat Kohli understood the pulse of the game very quickly. Mahendra Singh Dhoni understood the pulse of batting in ODIs very quickly.

Shubman Gill understands the pulse of the game. He understands 100% where the game is going. Where can I go? Where can I take it? How can it run according to me? He is absolutely brilliant. He is top-class about himself,” he said.


Chopra calls Gill future superstar 

He also said that the Punjab born player has everything to be a future superstar and that he should play in all the three formats. He also talked about his performance in IPL and how the season he made 900 runs in a year was a great season for him.

“Shubman Gill has that future superstar thing. He is doing good as well. You shouldn’t have taken him in T20s (World Cup). The team that was picked was fine. It’s okay. Sometimes, we tend to get too obsessed with that. Now he is a player. So, he should play in all three formats. There is no legitimate rule that he should play. He may make it.”

IPL, he does it very well. He made 900 runs in a year. Had a great season with Gujarat. So, I mean, he is very young. He will figure it out. But if he doesn’t go, it’s okay. Rohit Sharma didn’t play in the 2011 World Cup. It’s fine. But now India’s most successful captain,” he added.

Meanwhile, Shubman will next be seen in the two-match Test series against Bangladesh starting September 19.