IND Vs Eng: Shubman Gill continues with the bat, some Indian did this after 54 years

Team India captain Shubman Gill continues against England. He has scored a century in the second innings of the second Test match. Gill completed 100 runs in 129 balls. Earlier, the Indian star batsman scored a double century in the first innings. With this, Gill has become the 9th batsman in the world to score a double century and century in a match. He is the second batsman of India to do so after Sunil Gavaskar. Along with this, this is the eighth century of Gill’s Test career.

India’s legend Sunil Gavaskar scored a century and double century in an innings against the West Indies in 1971. He scored 124 in the first innings and 220 runs in the second innings. Gill has become an Indian batsman to score a double century and century in a match after 54 years. Gill scored 269 runs in the first innings of Edgbaston Test and scored 100 runs in the second innings.

Earlier, Gill was also the Indian batting to score the highest score on the land of England during the first innings. He defeated Sunil Gavaskar who scored 221 runs at the Oval in 1979. Gill, who scored 147 runs in his debut match as a Test captain in Leeds, completed his first double century in traditional format by taking a run at Deep fine leg off the Josh tank.