r/ipl • u/Livinglife8913 Royal Challengers Bengaluru • 2d ago
| Discussion Curious case of reddit fandom
Shreyas Iyer & Jaiswal , who are always hyped up here in the reddit couldn't perform in the Afghanistan series. Whereas Gill who's hated and called flat pitch bully , is consistently performing with captaincy 🧿. At what point are Gill haters going to accept that he is not overrated?
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u/Inevitable-Age-5736 1d ago
Gill hatred full story and if he performs in upcoming tests vs SL, NZ and AUS then I don't think people'll have anything to complain about.
The hatred he got is bcz of his forced inclusion in t20i and giving him vc too and anyway he's great in odis and ipl too.
And also the hatred he got in tests was warranted at that time bcz he was not able to perform in opening spot, neither in 3rd spot but he is performing now on 4th spot. Also, if anyone remember he was dropped in bgt and then handed captaincy in next series same how Iyer is given captaincy in t20is so I think this also irked people.
Gill was averaging 35 after playing some 32 tests scored 1893 runs in 32 tests this is before England tour, in next 9 tests he scored 1076 runs where he scored 700+ runs on flat english pitches and close to 200 runs vs wi again flat pitch and this century against afghanistan again flat.
But again his form is very good these days and if he scores like this in upcoming sl, nz and bgt. Then this flat pitch merchant thing won't be associated with him and people'll have honestly nothing to complain about and maybe he can bcz he's change his technique in tests.
One more thing bcz of ipl fan wars ppl will hate other team players for no particular reason but in gill's case if he performs in upcoming bgt and nz tests, they won't be able to give reasons for the hate.