{"id":500321,"date":"2026-03-28T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500321\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T15:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:53:22","slug":"i-dont-talk-to-half-captains-shubman-gill-trolls-ishan-kishan-he-wants-to-enter-odi-test-teams-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500321\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I don’t talk to half captains’: Shubman Gill trolls Ishan Kishan; ‘he wants to enter ODI, Test teams’ | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'IIshan Kishan and Shubman Gill (Image credit: Star Sports) NEW DELHI: Ahead of the IPL 2026 season, the two captains – Sunrisers Hyderabad\u2019s Ishan Kishan<\/a> and Gujarat Titans\u2019 Shubman Gill<\/a> – were seen engaging in playful, light-hearted banter. The video, where the duo pulled each other\u2019s leg, was widely loved by fans on social media.Regular skipper Pat Cummins<\/a> will miss the early stages of IPL 2026 due to a back injury, and in his absence, Ishan will lead SRH.In the video, Shubman and Ishan are seen teasing each other. <\/p>\n

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Greenstone Lobo predicts IPL 2026 winnerGill first mocked Ishan by calling him a \u201chalf captain,\u201d to which the SRH player replied that he would respond later.When Gill was asked to give advice to Ishan, the GT captain said that he does not \u201cgive advice to half captains.\u201dIshan responded by saying that he does not take advice from anyone and that he is \u201ca champion in himself.\u201dThe light-hearted banter between the two friends didn\u2019t stop there.Ishan said that Shubman Gill would not perform too well this season.In response, Gill asked Ishan when Hyderabad last won the title. Kishan countered by asking how many stars were on Gill\u2019s jersey. When Gill repeated the question about SRH\u2019s last title win, both friends laughed and said, \u201cJab ghar kachhey they, dil sachhey they.\u201dShubman then delivered a punchline, joking about Ishan and saying, \u201cHe wants to get into the ODI and Test teams.\u201dThe Indian Premier League 2026 is set to begin on Saturday, with the tournament\u2019s opening match to be played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad.’Ishan is a confident player’Head coach Daniel Vettori said that the Sunrisers Hyderabad team management had little hesitation in handing over the stand-in captaincy to Ishan Kishan, as he has proven to be a “confident player and leader.”\u201cI think Ishan’s been around in the IPL for a long period of time now. He\u2019s been with a number of teams and he’s been highly successful, so, he brings in his own confidence around that,\u201d Vettori said at the pre-match press meet here on Friday.\u201cThe fact that he’s led the U19s and his state team and they won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy this year brings a confident person, a confident player and a really confident leader and those are the attributes that we really looked at when he was appointed.\u201cHis combination with Abhishek, they’re good friends, they know the team exceptionally well and I really feel like those two will lead from the front this season,\u201d he added.Also See: RCB vs SRH Live Score<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ishan Kishan and Shubman Gill (Image credit: Star Sports) NEW DELHI: Ahead of the IPL 2026 season, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,61112,17773,17774,103284,8106,7054,101,17775,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-500321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-gujarat-titans","10":"tag-indian-premier-league","11":"tag-ipl-2026","12":"tag-ishan-kishan","13":"tag-pat-cummins","14":"tag-shubman-gill","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sunrisers-hyderabad","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}