
Gill enhanced his 50-over credentials with scores of 87, 60 and 112. ©BCCI
The walk from the dugout to the pitch at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad must be pulsating when you're such a crowd favourite. And not just on a World Cup final weekend. A bilateral Wednesday too can get racy here. The multi-tiered stands tower over and dwarf you, and even at nearly half the capacity, there are about 50,000 people. Virat Kohli strode out with a familiar purposeful gait - big, jumpy strides finishing with a mock drive - to a rousing reception from such a population in only the second over.
On a belter of a surface, the floor was his to dust out the cobwebs that had settled on his batting form before heading to Dubai for the Champions Trophy,