History at Edgbaston! Gill breaks Gavaskar's 49-yr-old record, becomes youngest to ...

NEW DELHI: Shubman Gill etched his sanction into Indian cricketing past connected Sunday, becoming the youngest Indian skipper to triumph a Test lucifer overseas, starring his squad to a record-breaking 336-run triumph against England successful the 2nd Test astatine Edgbaston.

At 25 years and 301 days, Gill surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's long-standing grounds acceptable successful 1976 successful Auckland. Gavaskar was 26 years and 202 days aged erstwhile his broadside bushed New Zealand astir fractional a period ago.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The triumph - India’s first-ever astatine Edgbaston and biggest overseas triumph successful presumption of runs - saw them level the five-match bid 1-1. It surpassed the erstwhile distant grounds acceptable successful 2019, erstwhile India defeated West Indies by 318 runs astatine North Sound.

Gill’s show with the bat was thing abbreviated of historic. He became the archetypal batter successful Test past to people 250 and 150 successful the aforesaid match, compiling majestic innings of 269 and 161. This came connected the backmost of his 147 successful the archetypal Test astatine Headingley, wherever India mislaid contempt his century.With 585 runs astatine an mean of 146.25 successful conscionable 2 Tests, Gill is present chasing Don Bradman’s legendary grounds of 974 runs successful a bid - a people that has stood for 90 years.

Speaking aft the win, a composed yet arrogant Gill said, “Especially erstwhile you are the captain, I deliberation you request to pb by example... truthful whenever determination is different subordinate successful that situation, you tin archer that player, this is what the squad requires close now.”He added, “If a bully shot gets maine out, it gets maine out. But arsenic agelong arsenic I americium there, I privation to play arsenic agelong arsenic possible.”

Pace duo Mohammed Siraj and Akash Deep played cardinal roles successful England’s collapse, portion Gill’s enactment - nether the added value of succeeding Rohit Sharma and filling Virat Kohli’s No. 4 slot - signaled a caller epoch successful Indian Test cricket.The 3rd Test begins July 10 astatine Lord’s, wherever Gill’s India volition present look to crook the tide further successful their favour.