Yaraana Down Under! Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma unwind on Gold Coast beach | Cricket News
Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma are enjoying their free time at the Gold Coast beach ahead of the fourth T20I against Australia to be played on Thursday. The series is tied 1-1 after three matches.Gill and Abhishek have been opening together since their U-14 days. Beyond opening partners, they have been childhood friends and understand each other’s game as well.Abhishek Sharma’s obsession with Shubman’s bat is well known. Abhishek scored his maiden T20I century with Shubman’s bat in Zimbabwe in 2024. “Whenever I need runs, I ask for his bat,” Abhishek had said.
Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma
Meanwhile, Shubman in one of his interviews had revealed how once they had a big fight over the issue.“It actually started back in our U-16 days. Abhishek began playing with my bat — there’s a story behind it. He was batting on 80 or 90 runs using my match bat, and I didn’t want it to break, so I asked him to return it. We ended up having a bit of a fight over that! But whenever he asked for my bat, I always gave it to him — and he scored a lot of runs with it,” Gill had said in an interview with JioHotstar.
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Arun Bedi, former Punjab cricketer, who saw Gill and Abhishek right from their U-14 days for Punjab has called them “Ek shaant hai and dusra shaitaan (One is shy, whereas the other is naughty).”
