Indian captain Shubman Gill has showcased remarkable talent with the bat in the ongoing Test match against England at Edgbaston, Birmingham. In the first innings, Gill made a stunning 269 runs and followed it with a century in the second innings. Facing the spinner Shoaib Bashir, he reached his century with a single, after facing 130 deliveries that included 9 boundaries and 3 sixes. Gill's innings ended with Bashir's ball, but not before he amassed 161 runs from 162 balls with 13 fours and 8 sixes.
♦ Shubman Gill becomes the second Indian to score both a century and a double century in a Test match. Prior to him, the legendary Sunil Gavaskar was the only batsman to achieve this feat. Gill is just the ninth batsman to achieve a double century and a century in a single Test, and he is only the second captain to do so. In 1990, English captain Graham Gooch made similar strides against India in the Lord's Test match (333 & 123).
♦ Gill has now etched his name as the highest run-scorer for India in a Test match, with a total of 430 runs (269 & 161) in this match, breaking Sunil Gavaskar's 54-year-old record. Gavaskar scored a combined 344 runs (124 & 220) against the West Indies in a Port of Spain Test match back in April 1971.
♦ Shubman Gill has also claimed the title of the highest score by an Asian batsman in a Test match outside Asia. This title was previously held by Pakistan's Hanif Mohammad, who scored 354 runs (17 & 337) against the West Indies in the Bridgetown Test in 1958.
♦ Gill is the third Asian batsman to score over 300 runs in a Test match within the SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia) countries, with only Rahul Dravid (305) and Sachin Tendulkar (301) achieving similar feats during the Australia tour of 2003-04 in Adelaide and Sydney, respectively.
♦ Gill is now the Indian captain with the highest number of runs in a Test match, surpassing Virat Kohli, who scored 293 runs (243 & 50) against Sri Lanka in the Delhi Test of 2017.
♦ Gill is the second captain, following Virat Kohli, to score three centuries in his first two Test matches. Other captains like Vijay Hazare (India), Jackie McGlew (South Africa), Greg Chappell (Australia), Sunil Gavaskar (India), Alastair Cook (England), Steve Smith (Australia), and Dhananjaya de Silva (Sri Lanka) have scored two centuries in their first two Test matches as captains.
