IND vs ENG: 'Classy, Calm, Fearless' - Sachin, Yuvraj lead praise for Gill & Jaiswal

India's rising batting stars Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal lit up Edgbaston connected Day 1 of the 2nd Test against England - and their efforts drew a flood of praise from immoderate of cricket's biggest names, led by Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and Irfan Pathan.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The duo's commanding show helped India retrieve from aboriginal jolts to decorativeness 310/5 astatine stumps, with Gill remaining unbeaten connected 114 and Jaiswal striking a fluent 87 disconnected 107 balls.

Tendulkar took to X to laud the young guns, highlighting their contrasting yet complementary styles.“@ybj_19 acceptable the code from shot one. He was positive, fearless and smartly aggressive. @ShubmanGill was chill arsenic ever, calm nether pressure, coagulated successful defence and successful full control.

Classy knocks from both. Well played, boys!” the batting fable wrote.

Gill, who present has back-to-back hundreds arsenic India's caller Test captain, besides earned plaudits from Mohammad Kaif, who hailed his emergence astatine the coveted No. 4 spot.“Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and present Shubman Gill... India is ever blessed to person a coagulated world-class batsman astatine No. 4. May this proceed forever,” Kaif posted.

Yuvraj Singh, who has agelong mentored Gill, was arsenic effusive.

“When work calls, immoderate emergence and immoderate soar! @ShubmanGill conscionable became 1 of the uncommon fewer to people consecutive hundreds arsenic Test captain! A calm head, a bold bat and a hunger to pb by example,” helium wrote.

Former opener Wasim Jaffer praised Gill's poise nether pressure. “Being India's fig 4 and Test skipper comes with a antithetic unit altogether. Really bully to spot it has not affected his batting 1 bit, successful information it's elevated it,” Jaffer wrote.

All-rounder Irfan Pathan, meanwhile, underlined the duo's relation successful shaping India's Test future.“I person nary uncertainty successful my caput 2 batters from this young Indian squad volition instrumentality trial squad forward. YASHASVI JAISWAL & SHUBMAN GILL,” helium posted.

Despite insignificant setbacks - KL Rahul and debutant Nitish Reddy falling cheaply - India's commanding concern betwixt Gill and Ravindra Jadeja (41*) ensured the squad closed the time connected top, with the skipper erstwhile again starring from the front.