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'Shubman Gill On Same Boat As Shreyas Iyer' - Ex India Star's Minses No Words

image-lslhxe2oShubman saved his spot with a magnificent century [AP]

Aakash Chopra gave honest remarks on Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer and the contrasting fate of the two Indian middle-order players in the ongoing Test series against England. 

The former opener noted how Iyer got dropped for the last three Tests and Gill managed to escape the axe with a terrific second-innings hundred in the win in Visakhapatnam. 

Heading into the second half of the second Test in Vizag, both Gill and Iyer were under great scrutiny and pressure over their persistent failures. But while Gill made amends with his freeflowing 104 off 147 balls, Iyer couldn't revert his fortunes and was dropped on the back of his unsatisfying and brittle knock of 27. 


Chopra On Iyer, Gill's Contrasting Fate 

Chopra said even though Gill was also struggling until making his third Test century, he never appeared as shaky and ungainly at the crease as his Mumbaikar teammate did.

"Reports say that he was available for selection because there are three matches. So even if he wasn't available for one match, he could have been available for the remaining two matches. So he was available for selection," Chopra said on his YouTube channel.

 "However, the selectors said that they weren't going to pick him. Shubman Gill was also in the same boat but he never looked ugly. People said that about Shreyas in the Vizag Test match and what they said wasn't wrong."

Iyer was dropped after the second Test match, on the back of not just a painstaking drought of runs spanning 13 innings with no fifties.

With a tour of Australia scheduled later in the year, the selectors probably felt he was too big a risk to be retained in the Test team with pace and bounce being his major Achilles heel. Iyer's prolonged dip has seen his overall average drop to 36.86 after 14 Tests.