Shubman Gill faces major scrutiny over conservative batting approach during IPL 2026 ...Middle East

On May 16, GT lost to KKR at the Eden Gardens after winning five matches in a row. The Gujarat Titans had fallen short by 29 runs after conceding 247 with the ball.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi made an unbeaten 82 from 44 balls, while Cameron Green also propped up the score to almost 250 with his 52 not out from just 28 balls. GT also suffered from a dreaded case of butterfingers as Allen was dropped twice, while Raghuvanshi and Green were spilled once each.

Gill kept the tempo up, but Sunil Narine was again at his restrictive best. Gill got together with Buttler, but their partnership basically kept playing catch-up. Narine got rid of Gill for 85, and Buttler too got his own fifty.

"Nobody had a good strike rate" - Rohan Gavaskar

Speaking to Cricbuzz after the match, Rohan Gavaskar said that the problem lied in the strike rates of the GT batters. Gavaskar said that even though three GT batters got fifties, none of them got them at an adequate strike rate considering the total they had to chase.

“So when you are chasing 240, it shouldn’t happen that not even one batter has a strike rate above 200. You want one or two batters to play impactful cameos. Even if someone scores just 25 runs, that innings should come at a strike rate of 200, 225, or even 250. Here, Sai Sudharsan’s strike rate was around 190, but no other batter had a strike rate above 180,” he added.

Shubman Gill's performance in IPL 2026

So far, Gill has made 552 runs in 12 matches at an average of 46 and a strike rate of 160. He has also made five fifties.

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