Shubman Gill has recently been appointed as the new vice-captain in the T20Is but he has been criticised for his batting strike rate in the shortest format. Till now, Gill has featured in 33 T20Is and scored 837 runs with an average of 29.89 and a strike rate of 140.43.

In the T20Is, Shubman Gill replaced Sanju Samson as the opener and became a new partner of Abhishek Sharma who has shown aggressive power-hitting in the T20 format.

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Suryakumar Yadav has come in support of Gill and even praised his partnership with young opener Abhishek Sharma. Speaking in post-match press conference after the T20I series win against Australia, Suryakumar highlighted the both the duo are fire and fire.

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