IND v ENG: Greatest fightback! Shubman Gill's 269 powers India's historic recovery

NEW DELHI: India produced 1 of their top recoveries successful Test cricket aft the autumn of the 5th wicket, piling up a mammoth 587 connected Day 2 of the 2nd Test against England. From 211/5, the visitors added 376 runs - the astir India person ever scored aft the autumn of the 5th wicket successful a Test innings, surpassing the erstwhile champion of 370 against West Indies successful Kolkata (2013).Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Leading this singular turnaround was skipper Shubman Gill, who played a sublime sound of 269 disconnected 387 balls, registering his maiden treble 100 successful Test cricket. It was a historical effort that saw him go the archetypal Indian and Asian skipper to people a Test treble 100 successful England, and besides the highest idiosyncratic scorer for India connected English soil, surpassing Sunil Gavaskar’s 221 astatine The Oval successful 1979.

Gill's effort was good supported by Yashasvi Jaiswal (87) and Ravindra Jadeja (89), with the second partnering Gill successful a 203-run sixth-wicket stand. Later, Kuldeep Yadav besides chipped in, helping India station sixth 500-plus full by a visiting squad astatine Edgbaston, the archetypal since South Africa’s 594/5 declared successful 2003.

This was conscionable the 2nd clip a visiting squad had 2 period partnerships for the sixth wicket oregon little successful a Test innings successful England, aft West Indies astatine Trent Bridge successful 1957. It’s besides lone the 2nd specified lawsuit for India successful an distant Test, the archetypal being Kingston, 1971.After Shubman Gill’s majestic double-century, pacer Akash Deep struck doubly successful 2 balls to permission England reeling connected Thursday. In reply, England stumbled to 77 for 3 astatine stumps, trailing by a monolithic 510 runs.

Most runs for India successful an innings aft the autumn of 5th wicket