Team India’s young captain Shubman Gill is in tremendous form these days. Gill, who is raining continuously on the England tour, scored a historic performance in the Edgbaston Test and scored a double century and a century in a single match. With this great achievement, he has become the second and ninth batsman of the world to do such a feat.

Gill’s record

Gill played a huge innings of 269 runs in the first innings of this Test match, which became the biggest Test innings of any Indian captain. In the second innings, when Team India started batting on Saturday, July 5, the second wicket fell shortly. After this, Captain Gill, who came on the field, took the front again and scored a fiery century in 129 balls. This was the eighth century of his Test career, fifth against England and third century of this series.

This achievement of Gill is very special in cricket history, because in about 150 years of Test cricket, only 8 batsmen have been successful in scoring double centuries and centuries in a match. Gill became the ninth player in this list. This record was recorded only once before India, when Sunil Gavaskar played 124 and 220 runs against the West Indies in 1971.

Gill introduced skills

Gill’s performance not only shows batting skills, but also shows his strong mentality as a captain. His historical effort has strengthened the grip of Team India on the match. The special thing is that after becoming captain, Gill made a great start from the Leeds Test in this tour, in which he scored a century and made the leadership iron.