India National Cricket Team Test Captain Shubman Gill is doing some magic in the second Test match against the England National Cricket Team.
Shubman Gill has been at a record-breaking spree, and now he has broken the 54-year-old record of batting veteran Sunil Gavaskar for most runs by the Indian batsman in a Test match.
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Shubman Gill hit a historic double ton and a tonne in a single match
Gill has performed a sheer class in the match against three Lions and batted with his full capacity. He has got good help from batting -friendly pitch and has benefited the most.
In the first innings, Gill maintained the run and saw invincible. His control percentage with BAT was the best among the batsmen who have played in England in the last three decades.
Shubman Gill slammed a historic 269 runs off 387 balls, with 30 fours and 3 sixes. He started very slowly in the match, but eventually completed his innings with a strike rate of 69.50.
In the second innings, Gill once again looked under total control and hit his fifty in a century off 57 balls and 129 balls. He eventually ended with a score of 161 runs off 162 balls with 14 fours and 8 sixes.
Shubman Gill became the first Indian to score 400 runs in a Test match
Gill has made history with his incredible performance with the bat in the ongoing Test match in Birmingham and broke several records. He has become the first Indian and only fifth man to score 400 runs in a match after Graham Gooch, Mark Taylor, Kumar Sangakkara and Brian Lara.
The first Indian captain of the right hand has become the first Indian captain to score more than 300 runs in a Test match and has the most runs in the first Test series as captain for India.
In addition, he has become only the second Indian batsman after Sunil Gavaskar and is in a total ninth place to register a dual century and a century in the same test. This is only the second time that such an achievement has been achieved in a Test match in England.
After Rahul Dravid (305) and Sachin Tendulkar (301), Gill is just the third Asian batsman to score 300-Plus runs in an army countries, and has also become the second player to record three hundreds of tests in his first two tests as captain after Virat Kohli.
Here is a complete list of records made by Shubman Gill:
Most runs by a player in a Test match:
456 – Gooch vs Ind, Lords 1990
430 – Gill vs Ang, Birmingham 2025
426 – Taylor vs Pak, Peshawar 1998
424 – Sangakkara vs. Ban, Chatogram 2014
400 – Lara vs Ang, St. John 2004
Batsman with 250 and 100 in the same test:
Graham Gooch: 333 and 123, 1990
Kumar Sangakkara: 319 and 105, 2014
Shubman Gill: 269 and 100+, today
Dual century as a captain in a test and a century:
Graham Gooch vs India (Lords, 1990)
Shubman Gill vs England (Edgbaston, 2025)
The highest set for India in a test:
346+- Shubman Gill vs Ang, Edgbaston, 2025
344 – Sunil Gavaskar vs Wi, Port of Spain, 1971
340 – VVS Laxman vs. AUS, Kolkata, 2001
330 – Sourav Ganguly vs. Pak, Bengaluru, 2007
319 – Virender Sehwag vs SA, Chennai, 2008
309 – Virender Sehwag vs. Pak, Multan, 2004
Most runs for an Indian captain in a test match:
332+- Shubman Gill vs Ang, 2025
293 – Virat Kohli vs. SL, 2017
289 – Sunil Gavaskar vs Wi, 1978
278 – Sunil Gavaskar vs Wi, 1978
256 – Virat Kohli vs. Aus, 2014
254 – Virat Kohli vs SA, 2019
248 – Virat Kohli vs Ang, 2016
242 – Virat Kohli vs. Ban, 2017
235 – Virat Kohli vs Ang, 2016
Most runs for a captain in the first two tests:
464+- Shubman Gill
449 – Virat Kohli
429 – Sunil Gavaskar
367 – Steve Smith
Twins for an Indian captain in a test match:
Sunil Gavaskar – 107 and 182* vs Wi, Kolkata, 1978
Virat Kohli – 115 and 141 vs. AUS, Adelaide, 2014
Shubman Gill – 269 and 100+ vs Ang, Birmingham, 2025
Indian captain to hit 3+ centuries in a test chain:
4 – Sunil Gavaskar (West Indies Tour of India 1978/79)
3 – Virat Kohli (India Tour of Australia 2014/15)
3 – Virat Kohli (Sri Lanka Tour of India 2017)
3 – Shubman Gill (India Tour of England, 2025)
Captains visit to hit 3+ centuries in a test series in England:
3 – Don Bradman, The Ashes 1938
3 – Alan Melville, England tour of South Africa 1947
3 – Gary Sobers, West Indies Tour of England 1966
3 – Shubman Gill, England’s India Tour 2025*
Twin century for a captain against England in a Test match:
Alan Melville – 189 and 104*, Nottingham, 1947
INZAMAM-HU-HAQ-109 and 100*, Faisalbad, 2005
Shubman Gill – 269 and 100+, Birmingham, 2025
