Before becoming Test captain, Shubman Gill’s average was 35.06. After getting the captaincy, he has taken the responsibility of number-4, where he is raining runs. Gill is carrying forward the legacy established by Virat Kohli at number-4 very well. This fact is surprising that after becoming the captain, Shubman Gill’s test average has crossed 43 in just 12 innings. During this period he has also scored 5 centuries.

Before becoming the captain, Shubman Gill had scored 1893 runs in 59 innings at an average of 35.06 in his Test career. Before getting the captaincy, he had played five century innings. Gill has scored 933 runs in 12 innings since the England tour, which also includes a double century. After becoming the captain, his batting average has been 84.8.

Shubman Gill is not far behind Australian legend Don Bradman. In fact, Don Bradman had the highest average in 7 or more innings as a captain, who scored runs at an average of 101.51. Gill played an unbeaten inning of 129 runs in the first innings of the second Test against West Indies. Before this, he had also scored 50 runs in the first test match.

Gill’s tremendous form

Shubman Gill had scored a century in his first test match as captain. He played an innings of 147 runs against England in the Headingley Test. He was also the batsman who scored the most runs in the series against England. He had scored 754 runs in 10 innings including 4 centuries.

After becoming the captain, this has happened only twice when Shubman Gill could not score even 10 runs in a Test innings. His conversion rate as captain has been very good. Let us also tell you that Gill has now become the captain of the Indian ODI team and will captain the team in the upcoming ODI series against Australia.

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IND vs Eng 3rd Test, Shubman Gill: The third match of the five -match Test series between India and England will be played from July 10 at the Historical Cricket Ground Lords in London. In this match, Indian captain Shubman Gill can create history. To register his name in the pages of history, Gill will have to score only 18 runs in the third Test.

Shubman has scored 585 runs in the first two Tests of this series being played between India and England. In the first innings of the second Test played in Edgbaston, Gill scored a double century, while in the second innings also a century was scored. Now Shubman Gill has a chance to become the most run -up Indian in a Test series in England.

Dravid-Kohli-Gavaskar will all be left behind

Let us know that now Rahul Dravid has the record of scoring the most runs in the Test series against England in his house. In 2002, Dravid scored 602 runs in 6 innings at an average of around 100. After this, Virat Kohli is named in this record list. In 2018, King Kohli scored 593 runs in 10 innings at an average of 59.30. Shubman Gill has scored 585 runs in four innings of two Tests. In such a situation, Prince Gill will leave everyone behind as soon as 18 runs in the third Test to be played in Lord’s. Let us know that veteran batsman Sunil Gavaskar scored 542 runs in seven innings in 1979.

Indian captain who scored a century in both innings of Test match

Shubman Gill scored a century in both innings in the second Test played at Edgbaston. He is the third Indian captain to do so. Before Gill, in 2014, Virat Kohli scored centuries in both innings of the Adelaide Test against Australia. At the same time, veteran Sunil Gavaskar had scored a century in both innings of the Kolkata Test against the West Indies in 1978.

Shubman gill double century: Shubman Gill is raining records as soon as he becomes the captain of the Indian Test team. Gill is batting on number-4 as captain, he has scored two centuries in 2 consecutive matches on this new order. He has put a double century in the Birmingham Test, on the basis of which he has made countless records like one or two. So take a look at those 5 big records here, which Gill has made in the Birmingham Test.

Shubman Gill broke 5 big records

The biggest Test score by Indian batsman in England- Shubman Gill has become the batsman to make the biggest Test score for India on England soil. He has broken Sunil Gavaskar’s record, who scored 221 runs in a Test match against England in 1979.

First Asian captain to score a double century in England- Shubman Gill has now become the first Asian captain to score a double century in England. Prior to this, this record was in the name of Sri Lanka’s Tilakaratne Dilshan, who scored 193 runs as captain in England.

The biggest score for India in Tests out of Asia- Shubman Gill has now become the biggest score in Tests for India outside Asia. Till now, the Indian record of the biggest personal score in the Test outside Asia was in the name of Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 241 runs in Sydney (Australia).

The second youngest Indian captain to score double century in Tests- Shubman Gill has now become the second youngest Indian captain to score a double century in the Test. He has done this feat at the age of 25 years 298 days. Beyond him, only Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who held a double century at the age of 23 years 39 days.

Only sixth Indians scoring 250+ runs in Tests- Shubman Gill has become only the sixth Indian to score 250+ runs in the history of Test cricket. Before him, Virender Sehwag did this 4 times a total of 4 times. At the same time, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Karun Nair and Virat Kohli did this once. Now Gill has also been included in this list.

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