Shubman Gill scores ton on Day 4, breaks Sunil Gavaskar’s 54-year record

NEW DELHI: Shubman Gill continued his sublime signifier with the bat, scoring a fluent period successful India’s 2nd innings astatine Edgbaston aft his monumental 269 successful the archetypal innings. Having begun the bid with a sparkling 147 astatine Headingley, Gill has showcased his maturity and people successful challenging English conditions, proving wherefore helium is the backbone of India’s batting line-up.LIVE Score: India vs England 2nd Test Day 4 Gill has present been progressive successful 3 100-plus partnerships successful this Test unsocial — making him lone the 2nd Indian batter to bash truthful against England aft Karun Nair achieved the feat successful Chennai successful 2016.He is besides conscionable the 3rd Indian to stitch 3 100-plus stands successful an distant Test, joining Rahul Dravid (Hamilton 1998/99 and Rawalpindi 2004) and Sachin Tendulkar (Sydney 2004).

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Most runs for India successful a men’s Test match: 369* - Shubman Gill vs ENG, 2025344 - Sunil Gavaskar vs WI, 1971 340 - VVS Laxman vs AUS, 2001 330 - Sourav Ganguly vs PAk,2007 319 - Virender Sehwag vs SA, 2008 Gill’s aggregate of 369* runs successful this Test is present the highest ever for India successful a azygous Test match, overtaking Sunil Gavaskar’s 344 against the West Indies successful 1971.

He is besides lone the 3rd Asian to people 300-plus runs successful a Test successful a SENA state aft Dravid and Tendulkar did truthful successful Adelaide and Sydney, respectively, during the 2003/04 tour.

India captains with hundreds successful some innings of a Test

Sunil Gavaskar vs WI, Kolkata, 1978Virat Kohli vs AUS, Adelaide, 2014Shubman Gill vs ENG, Edgbaston, 2025

Gill is the 2nd subordinate to grounds 3 hundreds successful his archetypal 2 Tests arsenic skipper aft Virat Kohli. Seven others got 2 each: Vijay Hazare, Jackie McGlew, Greg Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar, Alastair Cook, Steven Smith and Dhananjaya de Silva.

Gill becomes the ninth batter to grounds a treble 100 and a 100 successful the aforesaid Test

Second for India aft Sunil Gavaskar vs WI (Port of Spain, 1971)Second successful England and the 2nd by a skipper aft Graham Gooch vs IND (Lord’s, 1990)On time four, KL Rahul chipped successful with a coagulated 55 portion Karun Nair made 26. Rishabh Pant past joined hands with Gill for a brisk 100-run basal earlier falling to Shoaib Bashir. At the clip of writing, India pb England by a monolithic 483 runs, with the declaration expected immoderate clip soon arsenic they look to propulsion for a triumph and instrumentality a steadfast grip connected the series.