Gurkeerat Singh Mann, a Punjab batsman, has revealed how in-form Gujarat Titans opener Shubman Gill prepares for batting before every match.
Gill has been on fire in the current IPL 2023. He has 680 runs scored in 14 innings at a strike rate of 152.47, with four fifties and two centuries.
Gill ended the league stage as the second-most run-getter after Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Faf du Plessis (730). He enters the IPL 2023 playoffs buoyed by back-to-back centuries against Sunrisers Hyderabad (101) and RCB (104*).
Gurkeerat Singh Mann, who was teammates with Shubman Gill on Punjab’s domestic side, spoke to Indian Express about the powerful batter’s training. Gurkeerat explained to Indian Express:
“He prepares a lot before every match. He set his areas where he can hit a certain bowler. He watches the videos of all the bowlers. He goes big in the pre-match preparation.”
Mann added:
“For example, the next match is at Chepauk. He has started training in the nets according to the dimensions of the Chepauk. He visualises everything and it gives him an advantage on the match day. He is like the class topper, who prepares a lot before the exam.”
“Shubman Gill has worked on his power game as well” – Gurkeerat Singh Mann
Shubman Gill had a fantastic 2023 season. During the home bilateral series against New Zealand in early January, he scored his first double-hundred and first T20I tonne.
the Punjab-born cricketer played only three One-Day Internationals in 2019-2020 and had been in and out of the Test side, Before making his T20I debut this year.
Gurkeerat Mann explained how Shubman Gill acquired a wide range of strokes and improved his power-hitting game:
“He developed the short-arm jab and the slap shot he plays through the covers over the period of time. In junior cricket, he was very thin and never had that power. He has worked on his power game as well.”
Mann added:
“The range of power strokes he has developed is after the initial failure he has gone through in his international career. It was the first time, when he struggled for runs, but the work never stopped and he came back a better player.”
Gurkeerat Singh Mann is now one of JioCinema’s Punjabi language commentators in the ongoing IPL 2023.