Gill is feeling the pressure of expectations: Sunil Gavaskar

Shubhman Gill’s last five scores in Test cricket have been 0, 14, 11, 15*, and 0. After how he started on the tour of Australia, there were huge expectations from the young sensation but Gill has failed to carry forward the moment from Australia.

What exactly has gone wrong for the youngster, who was expected to shine brighter in friendly home conditions? One factor may be the fact that the pitches in the series, barring the one used for the first Test, have not had runs in them. The other, as former India captain Sunil Gavaskar opines, could be the pressure of expectations.

"It's just a bad patch that anybody can go through. Expectations after the Australia tour were sky high, maybe he's feeling the pressure of those expectations," Gavaskar told India Today.

"Also he needs to play a bit straight at the start of the innings, he is playing across the line at the moment which is getting him into trouble," Gavaskar added.

The former India captain was also delighted with how the Indian spinners performed on the first day of the last Test.

"Indian spinners and bowlers have bowled really well. England players have not shown the application, determination required to fight it out despite the fact that the odd ball was turning. They were playing down the wrong line, they came in with lot of preconceived ideas.

"Sometimes there can be a lot of theory talk in the change room but at the end of the day that theory has to be separated from the practical - which is how you play each ball on its merit.

"I don't think the England batsmen did that and that's why they find themselves in this position. If they had even got to 250-60 I think they would have got to a good position," he signed off.