Follow UsMitchell Starc’s battle with Shubman Gill is quite one-sided in the longest format.
Over nine Tests, where Starc has bowled to Gill, the Indian skipper has a superior advantage, with 174 runs across 30.5 overs. The Indian skipper averages a staggering 87 against the left-arm pacer.
The left-arm opened up on his battles with Gill and insisted that he wouldn’t want to bowl to the right-hander in England. Thus far, Gill has been in sizzling form in the ongoing five-match Test series, with an average of 146.25.
“I wouldn’t bowl to him in England, that’s for sure. I didn’t see much of the game, I saw the scorecards. There was a few guys that were waking up, particularly Marnus and Alex Carey and Steve Smith, who would sit around a coffee machine and watch the game,” Starc said, reported Indian Express.
Starc also hit out at Ben Stokes’ claims that the fifth day of the Birmingham Test was ‘subcontinental’, adding that it is quite hard to believe.
“I did see the scores. Who would be a kid in England and want to bowl on some of those wickets. But from all reports, it was very sub-continent like which I find it hard to believe,” he added.
“I don’t read into any of it. Its hard to I mean its the same as they’re probably reading into us over here on wickets that are hard to bat on. And we’re that would be the same as us sitting and going, ‘Ok, they’re playing on absolute highways.’ What do you take out of 300 runs for a Test match and India bowling them out? I don’t know. They are not playing for draws. That’s what you take out of it,” Starc said.