IND vs Eng: Shubman Gill closed the talk of Harry Brook’s ‘draw’ with epic answer – Watch | Cricket news
Shubman Gill maintained India’s scorching form with another century, increasing India’s mass lead in the second Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham. After losing the initial trial by five wickets in the headingley, India is determined to bounce and late the five-match series-and Gill’s batting masterclass is firmly controlled by Gill’s batting masterclass.Amidst Gill’s leading knock, an eighth exchange between Indian captain and England batsman Harry Brook added a touch of humor in a stressful competition.Here is how the conversation came out:Harry Brook: “No 450 declared? Shubman, you know it is raining tomorrow. Half a day. Afternoon. It is raining.”Shubman Gill: “Bad luck for us.”Harry Brook: “Take a draw.”Shubman became the third Indian captain to score centuries in both innings of a Test match, which attended the famous Sunil Gavaskar (vs West Indies, Kolkata, 1978) and Virat Kohli (vs Australia, Adelaide, 2014).
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Gill makes Gill’s achievement even more remarkable, the horrors of his contribution – a stunning 269 in the first innings after a fluent century in the second.
With this, he became only the ninth batsman in Test history to register a double hundred and A century in the same Test match. For India, only Gavaskar had earlier achieved this rare achievement during the 1971 series against the West Indies in Port of Spain.Gill is also the second Indian after Kohli, who scored three centuries in his first two tests as captain. Kohli achieved it during the onset of his captaincy in 2014-15, and now Gill has matched the feat in Headingley with centuries and a twin-tone masterclass in Edgbaston. Only two players in Test history – Kohli and Gill – have managed this rare achievement of three hundreds in their first two matches as a Test captain.In addition, Gills are included in a special group of players – including Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar, Greg Chappell and Steven Smith – who scored two centuries in their first two tests as skipper.
