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New Delhi: Indian captain Shubman Gill smashed his seventh Test hundred against England at Edgbaston in Birmingham on July 2. He notched up a brilliant 147 at Headingley and followed it up with a sensational unbeaten 114 on the opening day of the second Test.
He joined the elite club of visiting captains and also became the second Indian to score hundreds in the first two Test matches of a series in England. The visiting captains with centuries in each of the first two Tests in England are: Don Bradman (1938), Sir Gary Sobers (1966), Mohammad Azharuddin (1990) and Shubman Gill (2025).
After his century in Leeds, Gill became the first Indian batter to score 100 runs on the opening day of a Test in England on two separate instances (13th Indian overall). Before this series, the 25-year-old had never before scored a hundred in the first innings/first day of a Test.
Gill also became the fourth Indian batter to smash three consecutive tons against England after Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar and Rahul Dravid. He also became the third Indian captain after Vijay Hazare (1951-52) and Azharuddin (1990) to hit hundreds in consecutive Tests against England. Gill completed the 2000-run mark in the longest format on his Test captaincy debut, just like Virat Kohli did in Adelaide in 2014.
The Men in Blue got off to a poor start in the second Test as Chris Woakes removed KL Rahul on 2 runs. Karun Nair, who came to bat at No.3, stabilised the innings and forged an 80-run partnership with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Nair looked in brilliant touch and played a couple of good drives, but was dismissed by Brdon Carse on 31. Gill came in to bat at 95/2 and absorbed the pressure.
He stitched a two-fifty-plus runs partnership with Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant, and then forged an unbeaten 99-run partnership with Ravindra Jadeja. Both batters will look to add a few more runs to India's first innings total on Day 2.
