Shubman Gill is currently the ODI vice-captain for India. The 25-year-old scored a hundred in India’s six-wicket win over Bangladesh. Ricky Ponting said Gill is a ‘very driven’ person who understands his path. The former Australian captain said the one-day format suits Gill’s style of batting, and hoped he will soon translate that success into Test cricket. “He’s been a very, very good international player for a number of years. He hasn’t sort of transferred that over into Test Match cricket yet, but his white ball cricket over the last three or four years has been outstanding,” said Ponting, a two-time 50-over World Cup winning captain. ‘He’s not a big hitter, he’s not anyone that goes out there and tries to do anything outside of the way that he can naturally play. He just scores boundaries almost at will against fast bowling, against the white ball,’ he noted.
