During the ongoing IPL 2024, British pop icon Ed Sheeran posted a video on Friday of himself with Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill and prominent stand-up comedian Tanmay Bhatt.
In the film, which was shot prior to Ed Sheeran’s recent concert in Mumbai, the trio discuss Australian legend Shane Warne, global passion for Indian food, tattoos, the cricketer’s dating status, and more. The video also shows Sheeran and Gill conversing with Tanmay Bhatt at a chat eatery in the city, culminating with them having fun on the nets.
One startling moment in the video is when Ed Sheeran asks Gill whether he has a girlfriend, to which the GT star responds, “No, I’m single.” This must come as a surprise to the cricketer’s fans, who frequently associate him with renowned cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar’s daughter, Sara.
What’s particularly fascinating is that Ed Sheeran expressed his love for the famous Indian dish butter chicken, saying, “If I was on a death row, my last meal would be butter chicken. I f**** love it.”
Sheeran also offered an interesting anecdote about an event with Australian spin star Shane Warne and the two of them playing blackjack.
Ed Sheeran recalls a joke about cricket legend Shane Warne, “We all used to play Poker, no (corrects himself) Black Jack, we were like, Let’s meet up and have a blackjack game”
He recall times when, “Shane Warne had lost a lot of money on the Roulette table and invited him to come over for a game of Black Jack”,
Warne wanted to recoup his losses, so he told Ed Sheeran, “Let me win some money first.”
Sheeran goes on to say, “Warne kept putting the chips on his favourite number 23 repeatedly and kept losing, and I went up to him and asked him to put in on my Favourite lucky number which is 17”
“I asked him to put all his money on 17, He puts it on 17 and the Roulette table hits 23” Sheeran breaks into laughter.
Shubman Gill describes his pre-match ritual: “I mostly listen to instrumental, classical music.”
Shubman Gill prefers to listen to the artist Ludovico Einaudi.
Ed Sheeran then discusses having over 60 tattoos and jokes about wanting to even cover up his Butt cheeks with 2 ‘W’ to make it ‘WOW.’
