[Watch] ENG vs IND 2025: Shubman Gill takes cheeky dig at 'boring Take a look at cricket' by English batters

Shubman Gill was noticed hilariously sledging the opposition batters throughout Day 1 of the third Take a look at of the continued five-match collection between England and India at Lord’s. Fielding within the slip cordon, he could possibly be seen intimidating the duo of Ollie Pope and Joe Root that they weren’t residing as much as the expectations of Bazball and as a substitute opting to play a standard, boring model of cricket.

Gill’s sledging was caught on-mic throughout one in every of Jasprit Bumrah’s overs. Pope had left a supply outdoors the off stump for the wicketkeeper to gather. Gill stored issues energetic together with his chirping from the slips and took a sly dig on the uninteresting displaying with the bat by way of the web run charge.

“No extra entertaining cricket, lads. Welcome to boring Take a look at cricket,” the Indian skipper was caught saying on air.

Talking of the present match, the opening session of the sport belonged to India after Nitish Kumar Reddy struck twice in his first over to do away with Ben Duckett (23 off 40) and Zak Crawley (18 off 43). The hosts received to 83/2 in 25 overs.

The pair of Pope and Root went into Lunch unscathed. Nevertheless, the previous needed to stroll again on the primary ball of the third session for 44 off 104. The breakthrough was offered by Ravindra Jadeja with substitute keeper Dhruv Jurel snapping up the chance.

Just a few overs later, Harry Brook needed to depart after inside-edging a Jasprit Bumrah supply onto the stumps. On the time of writing, England are 196 for the lack of 4 wickets after 62 overs with Root nonetheless batting skipper Ben Stokes.

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