Shubman Gill’s workload in 2025 has quietly become one of the biggest talking points in Indian cricket. Between May and mid-November, Gill has been on the field for 48 match-days in just 140 days, meaning he plays one high-intensity game every 2.9 days. That includes 33 days of Test cricket, 12 T20Is, and 3 ODIs, along with the added pressure of captaincy, strategy meetings, leadership responsibilities, and even upcoming IPL 2026 retention decisions.

Compared to India’s senior players, the gap is huge. While Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja have spent 33 match-days on the field in this period, Gill has logged 1.5 times more. Add to this the constant switching between formats, travel, recovery, training, and media duties, and the mental and physical fatigue becomes obvious.

His dip in white-ball form could well be a byproduct of this overload. Gill himself has said that workload management is “more mental than physical”, but even the strongest bodies wear down eventually.

As India’s all-format captain and centerpiece of the batting lineup, Shubman Gill needs structured workload management just as much as the fast bowlers do.

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