India’s veteran Sunil Gavaskar has praised Shubman Gill this time for his extraordinary run in England, especially after receiving an additional responsibility as the captain of the team.
The India may be behind in the series and rely on the final test match at the Oval to put his hands on the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. Despite all the series, there has been some redemption for the new captain Shubman Gill as a batsman. In addition, the series has been special for the choice of KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and even Ravindra Jadeja.
Considering Gill’s excellence in the tournament, he has gathered over 750 runs in the series and is the highest by any Indian captain in his first series as 4 hundreds, as well as, The Skipper. For this, many Indian great people seem impressed, while Gavaskar has now finally made an official statement to praise the Indian captain.
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Sunil Gavaskar was impressed by Shubman Gill’s amazing show in England
The right -handed Indian batsman scored 754 runs in the series in 10 innings, while he missed out of Gavaskar’s 54 -year -old record, where Little Master scored a total of 774 runs against the West Indies in 1971.
Shubman Gill has not scored a single half-century in the series, as he scored four Big Daddy hundreds, and one of them was a huge double-hand that came during India’s huge victory in Edgbaston.
Gavaskar, at the end of the game of day 3, mentioned how Shubman Gill’s 754 West Indies is more important or difficult than 774 challenging for bowling attack.
“Okay, yes, in anticipation of my record moving, I had received something for him. It is all in God’s hands. But 754 runs – It is fantastic. The difference is that 754 runs have come with him, the additional responsibility of being a captain with him,” Gavaskar spoke to Sanjana Ganesan and Cheteshar Pujara.
“My, I was a child of the team; it didn’t matter. If I failed, no one would have given hoot. As a captain, to score 754 runs. More than 750 runs, where he is making a difference of his side’s luck. Don’t go by 20 runs. Just what 754 runs have done for Indian cricket.”
Most runs by an Indian batsman in the same test series
Recently, Shubman Gill scored several runs in the longest format of the game, making the ideas again, on which Batter has scored the most runs in the same series while playing for India.
Veteran Indian opener Sunil Gavaskar tops the list with a record-bracking 774 runs in the series against West Indies in 1970/71, where the batsman took an average of 154.80.
Shubman Gill recently sits next to the 754 -run run -tally veteran opener, while Sunil Gavaskar again returned to the list in the list in 1978/79 with 732 runs against the West Indies. Back in 2023-24, Yashasvi Jaiswal also scored a brilliant series against England, where he scored a total of 712 runs.
Virat Kohli scored the next features in the list twice, scored 692 runs in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia in 2014/15 and scored 655 against England in 2016/17.
Shubman’s run in the England series has been amazing as a first skipper
Shubman Gill has received the most spectacular series as an Indian captain in England, as he has scored 754 runs in a five -match series on English soil against England. He started his captaincy with his first army hundred, and by the end of the Test series, now there are 4 army in his name.
This was due to his brilliant 269 in the first innings in Edgbaston and 161 in the second innings, which inspired India to win their first win at the prestigious site of Edgbaston in Birmingham, where the team did not win a single game on any previous occasion.
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