Former India wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik has revealed a recent chat he had with Virat Kohli and how it reminded him of Shubman Gill. Karthik said Kohli told him that people perceive him as a Test ‘great’, but the former skipper derived much more pleasure from captaining the country. Karthik said he was told the same thing by Gill when he took over, who wants to lead from the front since taking over, too. Kohli retired from Test cricket in May this year. He gave up captaincy in January 2023, allowing Rohit Sharma to take over across formats. The latter retired a few days before him and made way for Gill, who started the tenure in the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy in England, which is level 1-1 after two Tests. “You spoke about Virat Kohli,” Karthik said in a Sky Sports podcast. “I met him a few days ago, and this talk about captaincy came up. He said, ‘People think, I’m a great Test cricketer. I enjoyed my Test batting, which I did, but the fact is that getting my captaincy was the best thing to happen in my life.’ Why I am saying this is that the same line was used by Shubman Gill.” Karthik revealed a similar interaction with Gill, stating, “He said ‘I used to bat differently, but now that I’ve got captaincy, I almost think this is what my team requires, rather than me wanting to do something individually as a batter.’ I said wow, this is something for which the world of cricket has to take notice. Here is a man who has the appetite, he’s got the skill, he’s got the technique, but now he’s got the mindset as well. I’m the captain, I’m going to lead from the front, lead off the front foot.” Gill has done exactly that in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. He is leading the runs chart after two Tests with 585 runs at an average of 146.25, with two centuries and a double-hundred. At Edgbaston in the second Test, he became the first to cross 200 and 150 in the same Test, which sealed a huge 336-run win for India.