India’s newly appointed captain, Shubman Gill, has been highly appreciated for his recent performances with BAT in England only. He has dominated extensively in the first innings with double-scale and has followed it with another 150+ score in the second innings of the game.
This was the first time since the former Indian great Sunil Gavaskar that an Indian batsman scored a double-bundle as well as a hundred score in two innings of the Birmingham Test.
India decided to announce the innings during the second innings of the Birmingham Test, Shubman Gill was seen recalling the players from the dressing room, while donating a black nike vest.
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This has certainly attracted the attention of social media fundamentalists along with several fans, as India is sponsored by Adidas. Therefore, Gill openly sport the Nike vest, and can issue a notice to the BCCI condemning this action based on the violation of the Adidas sponsor code.
I would not be surprised if Adidas writes a rigorous email to the BCCI that informs them about this sponsor code violation
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India announced to post a huge 600+ target in Edgbaston
India posted a huge total in the first innings, in which Gill took the batsmen pick up with a 587-run innings. This was followed by the lucky rise of the Indian bowlers, who took the initial wicket against England.
India reduced England to 82/5, after which there was a 300 -run partnership between Jamie Smith and Harry Brook, which took England to a huge 407. India took a lead of 180 runs in the first innings of the game and added important runs in the second innings.
Indian opener KL Rahul gave India a start; However, Gill was once again who attracted attention to his brilliant innings of 161 with a strike rate of about 100.
Rishabh Pant scored quick runs at the top, and then India scored 427/6 after Jadeja, when he announced, set a big target of 608 for England.
Shubman Gill’s record partnership with Ravindra Jadeja
Shubman Gill now has the highest runs scored by an Indian batsman in the first two tests, and is the second highest total by a batsman. Shubman Gill has now scored 585 runs in the first two tests against England, only against England behind South African Great Graeme Smith’s 621 against England.
Gill has also now scored the most runs in the first two tests as a skipper, defeating Virat Kohli’s previous record of 449.
The pair of Shubman Gill and Ravindra Jadeja are the first to form a record partnership of 200+ Kul in the first innings, and in the second innings after another hundred run partnership. They are now in nine Indian couples with a two -century partnership in Tests.
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