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“Shubman Gill catch reminds me of the one Kapil Dev took in 1983 final”: Twitterati compares Shubman Gill catch vs Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2022 to Kapil Dev’s

Gurpreet Singh
|PublishedMar 28, 2022

"Shubman Gill catch reminds me of the one Kapil Dev took in 1983 final": Twitterati compares Shubman Gill catch vs Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2022 to Kapil Dev's

Shubman Gill catch vs Lucknow Super Giants while running backwards makes Twitter go nostalgic as GT dominate the match proceedings so far.

During the fourth match of the ongoing 15th season of the Indian Premier League between Gujarat Titans (GT) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Wankhede Stadium, Titans’ opening batter for the season, Shubman Gill took a blinder of a catch to get rid of the Windies Southpaw batter Evin Lewis.

It all happened during the third delivery of the fourth Over of the innings bowled by Varun Aaron, after Mohammad Shami had already cleaned up LSG’s star opening pair in KL Rahul (0 off 1) and Quinton de Kock (7 off 9) in his successive Overs.

Aaron bowled a pacey short delivery outside the off-stump, to which Lewis decides to hook off his back foot towards the mid-wicket region.

With the ball hitting a touch higher part of his bat than where he would have liked, it went up high into the night sky a few yards outside the 30-yard circle.

Stationed at short mid-wicket, Shubman Gill back-tracked towards the cow corner region with his eyes zeroed in on the ball at each instant of his backward run. Going for it with both the hands, Gill pouched the ball from over his shoulder to complete an excellent running catch.

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Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.