By the end of the second day’s play, West Indies had scored 140 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. West Indies is still 378 runs behind India in the first innings. Team India had declared the first innings on the score of 518, in response to which the West Indies team struggled and reached the score of 140. The Caribbean team still has to score 179 more runs to save the follow-on. On the second day, Indian captain Shubman Gill also dominated, who broke many records by playing an inning of 129 runs.

On the second day, the Indian team continued its innings with a score of 318/2. By the end of the first day’s play, Jaiswal had scored 173 runs, but he was run out after scoring 2 runs on the second day. Jaiswal missed scoring the third double century of his Test career.

After that Nitish Reddy made a partnership of 91 runs with Captain Gill. Together they took Team India’s score beyond 400, Reddy was out after scoring 43 runs. Ahmedabad Test centurion Dhruv Jurel also got a good start, he scored 44 runs but could not convert it into a big innings. He along with Shubman Gill added 102 runs.

Shubman Gill has scored the 10th century of his Test career. On the basis of this 129 innings, he has become the highest run-scoring Indian batsman in the history of the World Test Championship. Apart from this he also broke many records.

Ravindra Jadeja weaved a web of spin in bowling

In reply, West Indies had a bad start as opener John Campbell was out after scoring just 10 runs. West Indies lost its first wicket on the score of 21. Tagnarin Chanderpaul and Alek Athanajé together made a partnership of 66 runs and kept the scoreboard of the West Indies team moving forward in a good manner. As soon as Chanderpaul was out after scoring 34 runs, the team’s score at that time was 87 runs. During this, West Indies lost 3 wickets within 20 runs. Now Shay Hope and Tevin Imlach have added 33 runs. Ravindra Jadeja has taken the most wickets for India so far. He sent 3 batsmen to the pavilion.

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The batsmen have been dominated in the India vs England Test series so far. The batsmen of both teams showed that together. Which has never happened before. Shubman Gill made history by scoring more than 400 runs in a single Test, while Ben Stokes took 5 wickets in a Test and also wrote his name on the pages of history by scoring a century.

England’s pitch is considered helpful for bowlers, while swing and seams are also seen on the pitch in the sky surrounded by clouds. In the four Tests played so far, the weather was likely to rain, it was also clouded, but in these difficult conditions also the batsmen rang. So far, a total of 18 centuries have been scored in this series.

Team India is ahead of England in terms of centuries

A total of 5 centuries came in the fourth Test played in Manchester, 3 in India’s second innings, Shubman Gill, Washington Sundar and Ravindra Jadeja came with the bat. Thanks to these 3 centuries, England had to be content with the result of the draw in the fourth Test. You will be surprised that this series has scored a total of 18 centuries so far, and the most centuries have been scored by Indian batsmen.

Out of 18 centuries, 11 centuries came in the Indian innings, England batsmen scored 7 centuries. Shubman Gill has scored a total of 4 centuries in this series. See which Indian batsmen scored so many centuries in the list.

• Shubman Gill- 4 centuries
• Rishabh Pant- 2 centuries
• KL Rahul- 2 centuries
• Ravindra Jadeja- 1 century
• Washington Beautiful- 1 century
• Yashasvi Jaiswal- 1 century

7 batsmen have scored centuries for England. Joe Root has scored 2 and 1-1 centuries Ben Stokes, Ben Docket, Harry Brook, James and Oli Pope. Team India is ahead of England in terms of centuries. The last Test of this series is still left, which will be played at The Oval Stadium from 31 July.

Shubman Gill has 11 runs away from creating history

In the fifth Test against England, Shubman Gill has to score just 11 runs, including both innings, he will become the Indian captain to score the most runs in a Test series. Right now these records are in the name of Sunil Gavaskar, who scored 732 runs in 1978-79. Gill has scored a total of 722 runs in 4 Tests played so far.

Shubman gill test centuries: Shubman Gill has scored a century in the Birmingham Test. With this, he has done a historical act. He has now become only the fourth Indian captain who has scored a century in both his first Test matches after becoming captain. Let us know that Gill had earlier scored 147 runs in the first innings of the Leeds Test against England. He has also joined the players who have scored a century in 3 consecutive matches in the Test matches between India and England.

First, we look at that record of Shubman Gill, in which Virat Kohli is still ahead of him. Actually Gill has become the fourth Indian captain who scored a century in both his first Test matches as soon as he became captain. Before him, Vijay Hazare and Sunil Gavaskar had scored a century in both Tests after becoming captain. At the same time, Virat Kohli scored a consecutive century in his first 3 Test matches after becoming captain. If Gill scored a century in his next Test too, then you will match Virat in this matter.

The first Indian to do this in 35 years

In the Test history of India and England, Shubman Gill has also joined the players who have scored a century in three consecutive Indo-England Test matches. He has become the only third Indian captain who has scored 2 consecutive centuries against England as an Indian Test captain. Before that, Vijay Hazare did this in 1951-52 and Mohammad Azharuddin did this in 1990. Now Shubman Gill has become the third Indian captain to do so after 35 years.

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