IND v ENG: 'Opening was not his place' - Ganguly lauds Gill's majestic knock

NEW DELHI: Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly hailed Shubman Gill's majestic 269 successful the 2nd Test against England arsenic “an implicit masterclass,” portion suggesting that Gill has yet recovered his perfect presumption astatine No.4 successful the Test batting order.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Ganguly took to X to praise the young skipper, writing: "An implicit masterclass from Gill... conscionable flawless. One of the champion innings I person seen successful England successful immoderate era. So overmuch betterment successful the past fewer months. Probably opening was not his spot successful Test cricket."

Gill, who began his vocation arsenic an opener, stepped into the pivotal No.4 slot antecedently held by icons Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar - and made it his own.

His record-breaking treble period connected Thursday helped India station a mammoth 587 each out, earlier the bowlers reduced England to 77 for 3 astatine stumps connected Day 2, giving the visitors a commanding 510-run lead.

"This is the effect of enactment I enactment successful earlier the series," Gill said aft the day's play. "I’m gladsome it’s paying off."The 25-year-old became the archetypal Indian and Asian skipper to people a treble 100 successful a Test successful England. He besides surpassed Kohli’s 254* arsenic the highest people by an Indian Test captain, and Tendulkar’s 241* arsenic the highest by an Indian extracurricular Asia. His sound besides eclipsed Sunil Gavaskar’s 221 astatine The Oval arsenic India’s apical Test people successful England.

India mislaid the bid opener astatine Headingley contempt Gill’s 147, but with his masterclass successful Birmingham, they are present successful rod presumption to level the series.As Ganguly enactment it, "A Test to triumph for India."