“Siraj Flay” – Shubman Gill reveals the reason behind the argument on the ground after a missed chance in the 5th test of the Eng vs ind 2025

The captain of the India Shubman Gill team revealed what happened after Gus Atkinson was able to sneak up for a simple on the last ball in the 84th to keep the shot. The launcher, Mohammed Siraj, was disappointed with the attempted exit from the Guichet Dhruv Jurel while putting the two gloves.
The competition was on the edge of a knife during the last window partnership between Gus Atkinson and Chris Woakes. Although the two are decent strikers, more than capable of managing a tense situation, the veteran designer played with a dislocated shoulder, which means that he could not be on strike.
Team India wanted to capitalize on this fact by keeping Atkinson Off Strike, and had the opportunity to do so towards the end of the 84th. The right -handed striker made no contact against the full and wide delivery of Siraj, and was forced to pass for a single, with woakes which also take off from the other end.
Jurel, however, replied with a tamed throw while the ball was softly detached from the gloves, not even close to hitting the stumps. Siraj cut a frustrated figure after England escaped unscathed while asking Skipper Gill something.
“He told me to say to Dhruv swears to remove his gloves for a chance to run, when I said to Dhruv, Siraj fled, so we did not have time. So, after Run-out luck was missed, he asked me why I didn’t tell Dhruv to take off the glove?” Gill said at the post-series press conference (via Times of India).
In the next one, Jurel was spotted with a glove in order to hit the strains much more effectively if a similar chance arose again.
However, Siraj took matters into his own hands in his next time, sending a burning Yorker to the Château Gus Atkinson and sealed the narrow six -point victory. Gill recalled the conversation he had with head coach Gautam Gambhir before the series, where he called the team as a “firearm team”, not a “young team”.
“Before the start of the series, Gauti Bhai said yes, we are a young team, but we don’t want to be considered a young team, we want to be considered a team of firearms. The way we played today, it has shown why we are a team of firearms, and we have firearms like him (Siraj) in the team, and that is what makes this team so special.”
The result appears as a major pressure lift for Gautam Gambir, whose red ball references were seriously in doubt after bleaching at home against New Zealand, and 1-3 defeat against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar 2024-25 final, costing a place in the World Test (WTC) championship.
“It is difficult to simply choose a” – Shubman Gill on the favorite hundred of his historical series against England
Shubman Gill was invited to choose the favorite from the four hundred he gave up in the Anderson-Tendulkar 2025 trophy. The story of the right-handed striker has scripted history by accumulating on 754 races in five tests, shortly missing on the emblematic period of 771 points of Sunil Gavaskar in 1971.
“Each one hundred that I scored had a very different meaning. If I can say, that of Leeds was my first match. I was under pressure, not to be able to play, especially in this format how I wanted. So, that 100 would always be special for me. Then, the double and a hundred in Birmingham was also special, and that of Manchester means for me. Choosing Gill.
The Indian skipper has also urged that the idea of testing cricket potentially reduced to four days should not be entertained at all costs.
“If the test match was a four -day event, the five games in this series would have been drawn. I think the test cricket should be as it is. In my opinion, this is the most rewarding and satisfactory format,” added Gill.
The Indian tour in 2025 in England is only the fourth time since 2000 that the five tests of a series have spent five days. The fifth oval test was entirely ready to end day 4, a chaotic first day on a high green, but the weather finally pushed the match in day 5, now the series sequence.
Edited by Gokul Nair