SHUBMAN GILL - FUTURE OF INDIAN TEAM

Personal Life:

Shubman Gill was born on 8 September 1999 in Fazilka Punjab. His Father Lakhwinder Singh, an agriculturist. Shubman was passionate about cricket at a very early stage of life. He played cricket since the age of three. His nickname is Shubhi. His mother is Keart Gill. He has an elder sister name Shahneel Kaur Gill.

His father shows this talent and therefore he shifted to Mohali and rented a house near the PCA stadium.

Domestic career:

Shubham was chosen to play under the -16 Punjab cricket team, at the age of 11, at the district level. He made his List A debut for Punjab in the 2016-2017 Vijay Hajare Trophy on 25 February 2017. He made his first-class debut for Punjab in the 2017-18 Ranji trophy on 17 November 2017.

In January 2018 Kolkata Knight Rider bought him in  Rs 1.8 crore. 

He made his debut when he played his first match for Kolkata Knight Rider in the 2018 IPL edition.

In October 2018 he was named in India C's squad for the 2018-19 Deodhar trophy. Gill scored his maiden double class century in first-class cricket scored 268 runs.

By January 1, 2019, Gill score more than 950 plus runs in first-class cricket across eight matches. He was the leading run score for Punjab in 2018-19.

International career:

In January 2019 Gill was in the ODI team against New Zealand. 

On 31 January 2019, he made his international debut against New Zealand in the fourth ODI.

In August 2019 he was the young player to score a century in a first-class match.

Gill made his debut for India on 26 December 2020 against Australia. In the fourth Test match of this series, he scored 91 runs to help India to win the series.

In the last match, he played against New Zealand in the WTC final where he scored less than 30 runs in both innings.

He scores 28 runs in the first inning and he scored 8 runs in the second inning.

Although this is his early-stage final he has to go a long way in cricket. He is the future of the Indian cricket team.

He also won the emerging player award in the 2019 Indian Premier League.

Records:

• Youngest cricketer to lead a side in Deodhar Trophy.
• Leading run-scorer for India in 2018 U-19 WC (372)

Unknown Facts :

1. He is a big fan of the Spanish football club, FC Barcelona.
2. He admire Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli.