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When Gill walked off to a standing ovation after a 60-ball 129, it felt like another chapter had been written in his T20 transformationShashank Kishore26-May-20231:24Manjrekar: Gill a once-in-a-generation playerShowmen like the big stage. They are…
In Sri Lanka, he is relentlessly looked down by the spinners, banished to some corner of the field. In Christchurch, Suranga Lakmal was a different beastAndrew Fidel Fernando26-Dec-2018To be Suranga Lakmal on Sri Lankan tracks…