Former India Test captain Virat Kohli congratulated newly appointed Indian captain Shubman Gill on his dream performance in the second Test at Edgbaston, where he scored a double century in the first innings and a century in the second.
Kohli praised the number four batter on social media, writing: “Well played, star boy. Rewriting history… Onwards and upwards from here. You deserve all of this.”
Captaincy brings pressure for many, but for Gill, it seems he is relishing the responsibility. In his first Test as captain, Gill scored a brilliant century to help India to a strong position. He made 147 runs off 227 balls, including 19 fours and a six. In the second match, he raised the bar even further, registering the highest score of his Test career — 269 runs off 387 balls — leading India to a total of 587. In the second innings, he added 161 runs off 162 balls at a strike rate of 99.38, with 13 fours and eight sixes. Across both innings, Gill amassed a total of 430 runs.
With those two memorable knocks, Gill became the first batter in 148 years of Test cricket to score both a double hundred and a 150 in the same match.
He also entered the history books as the first Indian in 87 years to score over 400 runs in a single Test. His tally of 430 is the second-highest ever in a Test match, behind only England’s Graham Gooch, who scored 456 against India in 1990.
Gill also broke Sunil Gavaskar’s long-standing Indian record for most runs in a Test match. Gavaskar had scored 344 against the West Indies in 1971 during his fourth Test. Gill’s performance now stands as the best-ever by an Indian in a single Test.
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