Shubman Gill grew to become the thirty seventh Check captain of the nation earlier this 12 months and through his first sequence as an Indian captain, this younger participant has made a giant title for himself as a batsman. He scored 269 runs in 387 balls in the course of the first innings of the second Check match in Birmingham and scored 85 runs within the third innings.
After scoring 75 runs within the third innings, the place he hit Shoaib Bashir within the 53rd over, Gill made historical past as he set a document of scoring probably the most runs within the longest format for Major in Blue. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar’s document. Within the Check match towards the West Indies in 1971, Gavaskar scored 344 runs within the longest format and has scored 345 runs in his bag.
Gavaskar scored 124 runs within the first innings and 220 runs within the second innings. 10 occasions 9 Indian batsmen have scored greater than 300 runs within the longest format, the place Gill is on the high within the record. Former England captain Graham Gooch holds the document for scoring probably the most runs within the longest format.
In 1990, Gooch scored 456 runs in a Check match towards India at Lord’s. He scored 333 runs within the first innings and 123 runs within the second innings. Other than Gooch, Mark Taylor (426) of Australia, Kumar Sangakkara (424) of Sri Lanka and Brian Lara (400) of West Indies are a part of this record.
If Gill, who grew to become the primary Asian Check captain to attain a double century within the nation, rating a century within the third innings, then he’ll match the elite document of Gavaskar. Gavaskar is the one Indian batsman to attain a century and double century within the longest format.