Aday before Shubman Gill broke his 11-month century drought, he was backed on social media by none other than Kevin Pietersen. The former England captain in fact urged the public to have faith in Gill, and compared his career graph to the great Jacques Kallis, who as per KP’s claim, averaged just 22 after first 10 Tests.
And the world knows how big a legend he went on to become. Call it coincidence or whatever you want to, Gill, the very next day, proved his detractors wrong, scoring a crucial 104 in India’s second innings to… pretty much, set the record straight. Pietersen then sent out another message on X, where he thanked Gill for proving him right. “Thank you, Shubman Gill,” he wrote.
However, once India defeated England by 106 runs on Day 4 to level the series 1-1, Gill apologised to Pietersen. The reason behind it was that Pietersen wanted to congratulate the youngster on his century after stumps on Day 3, but Gill had to rush to the post-match press conference instead of joining KP and Zaheer Khan on the official broadcaster’s post-match interaction.