Shubhman Gill Second Youngest To Score A Test Double Hundred As India Captain India Vs England Stats - Amar Ujala Hindi News Live

Indian captain Shubman Gill scored a double century in the first innings of the second Test against England. This is the first double century of Gill’s Test career. Gill is the first Indian captain to score a double century in England. He managed to do so on 311 balls. India has scored a big score against England on the strength of Gill’s strong innings.

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Gill and Jadeja – Photo: BCCI x

Great partnership with Jadeja

India started the second day by 310 runs for five wickets, but Gill and Ravindra Jadeja added 203 runs for the sixth wicket to bring India to a strong score. Jadeja could not complete the century and was dismissed by 89 runs, but Gill stayed and he completed a double century. This 200+ run partnership between Jadeja and Gill is the third major partnership for the sixth or below wicket between an Indian pair against England. Earlier, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja had a partnership of 222 runs on the same ground (Edgbaston) in 2022.

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Shubman Gill – Photo: Bcci X

11th captain to score a double century in England

Gill is the second young captain of India to score a double century in Tests. He has left Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli behind in this case. Gill did this feat at the age of 25 years 298 days. The record of the youngest captain to score a double century in Tests for India is named after M Pataudi, who achieved this feat against England in the match played in Delhi in 1964. Pataudi had repeated the Test as a captain at the age of 23 years 39 days.

Sachin scored a double century in the Test against New Zealand in 1999 as captain, at that time he was 26 years 189 days. At the same time, Kohli scored a double century in the Test against West Indies in 2016 at the age of 27 years 260 days. Overall 11 captains have scored a double century in England, out of which four have been from the hosts, while the players of the team have been scored on seven tour. Only Graeme Smith is ahead of Gill in terms of scoring a double century as a captain in England. Smith did this in 2003 at the age of 22 years 175 days.

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Shubman Gill – Photo: BCCI -X

Leave Gavaskar behind

Gill has made another achievement on the strength of his brilliant innings. Gill has become the highest run -scorer in an innings in England. He has left behind veteran Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar in this case. Gavaskar scored 221 runs in the match played at The Oval in 1979. Gill managed to leave him behind as Gill scored 222 runs. In 2002, Rahul Dravid scored 219 runs at The Oval itself.

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Shubman Gill – Photo: Bcci X

Indian Test captain who scored a double century

Gill has joined the list of Indian Test captain who scored a double century. Kohli has scored a double century in Tests seven times while being captain, while Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Gavaskar, Sachin, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Gill have scored a double century once as captain. Gill is the second Indian captain after Kohli who has scored a double century in Tests abroad. At the same time, Gill is the first Asian captain to score a double century in the Army country (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia). Before him, the record of scoring the most runs in these countries is in the name of former Sri Lankan batsman Tilkaratne Dilshan who scored 193 runs at Lord’s in 2011.

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