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Shubman Gill believes England breached ‘spirit of the game’ during third Test

India captain doesn’t back down over Lord’s spatBen Stokes says England did not ‘go over the line’The India captain, Shubman Gill, has strongly criticised some of England’s behaviour during their ongoing Test series, describing it as not “what I would think comes in the spirit of the game”.On the eve of the fourth Test at Old Trafford Gill was asked if he regretted confronting the England batter Ben Duckett during the last match at Lord’s, a moment that prompted England to decide, as Harry Brook put it on Monday, “to give them something back and not be the nice guys we have been in the last three or four years”. Gill’s intervention came as England’s openers tried – successfully as it turned out – to restrict India to bowling a single over during a seven-minute period at the end of the third day, using delaying tactics that included spotting convenient movement behind the sightscreen, and calling on the physio after being hit by the ball. Continue reading...

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