Fiery! Shubman Gill shuts down Harry Brook's 'draw' talk with epic reply

Shubman Gill maintained his scorching signifier with yet different century, piling connected the unit and stretching India’s monolithic pb successful the 2nd Test astatine Edgbaston successful Birmingham. After losing the opening Test by 5 wickets astatine Headingley, India are determined to bounce backmost and level the five-match bid 1-1 — and Gill’s batting masterclass has enactment them firmly successful control.Amid Gill’s ascendant knock, a lighthearted speech betwixt the Indian skipper and England batter Harry Brook added a interaction of humour to the tense contest.

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Here’s however the speech unfolded:Harry Brook: “Not 450 declared? Shubman, you cognize it’s raining tomorrow. Half day. Afternoon. It’s raining.”Shubman Gill: “Bad luck for us.”Harry Brook: “Take the draw.”Shubman became conscionable the 3rd Indian skipper to people centuries successful some innings of a Test match, joining the legendary Sunil Gavaskar (vs West Indies, Kolkata, 1978) and Virat Kohli (vs Australia, Adelaide, 2014).

What makes Gill’s feat adjacent much singular is the magnitude of his publication — a stunning 269 successful the archetypal innings followed by a fluent period successful the second.

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ith this, helium besides became lone the ninth batter successful Test past to registry a treble 100 and a period successful the aforesaid Test match. For India, lone Gavaskar had achieved this uncommon feat before, during the celebrated 1971 bid against the West Indies successful Port of Spain.Gill is present besides the 2nd Indian aft Kohli to people 3 centuries successful his archetypal 2 Tests arsenic captain. Kohli had achieved this during his captaincy debut successful 2014-15, and present Gill has matched that feat with centuries astatine Headingley and a twin-ton masterclass astatine Edgbaston. Only 2 players successful Test past — Kohli and Gill — person managed this uncommon feat of 3 hundreds successful their archetypal 2 matches arsenic Test captain.In addition, Gill joins an exclusive radical of players — including Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar, Greg Chappell, and Steven Smith — who person scored 2 centuries successful their archetypal 2 Tests arsenic skipper.