New Delhi: A full blue cap on his head, hand on the shoulders of his teammates and a few words loaded to shoot his team – it was a familiar group for Shubman Gill, but he had an additional weight. During the limits of the Headingley Stadium in Leeds, Gill addressed his team for the first time as a test captain in India. The strikers having delivered a dominant performance, his message was clear: let’s leave Bowl England early and take an advance of 1-0 in the series.India was overthrown for 471 during their first rounds of the opening test against England, with three centuries out of competition. The skipper Shubman Gill (147), the vice-captain Rishabh Pant (134) and the opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (101) threw a solid base for the solid position of India in the match.Gill and Pant shared a 209 -point stand that changes games for the fourth counter after Jaiswal and Kl Rahul (42) had displayed an opening partnership of 91 points. WATCH: Jaiswal’s 101 came out of 159 bullets and included 16 ovens and six. Gill struck 19 limits and six in his 227 ball 147, while Pant was the most aggressive, the 12 four and 6 six during his 134 balls – his seventh test of a hundred, now the most in all the Indian gates in the format.India, resuming at 359/3 on day 2, lost its remaining seven counters for 112 points. Ben Stokes (4/66) and Josh Tongue (4/86) were the choice of English quisors.
This total of 471 is now the highest score of the first birth of India in an outside test, because they did 622/7 declared in Sydney in 2019. It is also their highest level in the first round in England since 664 at the Oval in 2007.