New Delhi: India will face England for the fifth decisive test of the Anderson -Tendulkar trophy at the oval, from Saturday, and all the eyes will be on the skipper Shubman Gill – not only for its leadership, but for a benchmark which is well at hand. The 25 -year -old is only 32 races for less than 6,000 international races in formats, an important step that would close what has already been a historic series for the young captain.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Gill raised 5,968 points in 112 international games to an average of 46.62 and a typing rate of 79.92, with 18 hundred and 25 fifty ones in his name. Its highest score remains a fellow 269.
In the series of current tests against England, Gill was in imperative fit, scoring 722 points in eight innings with an average of 90.25. He is the main scorer of the series, after having marked four centuries – including a 103 composed in the third rounds of the fourth test in difficult conditions.
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With this blow, Gill engraved his name alongside the legends of the cricket. It only became the third captain in the history of the test to mark four centuries in a single series, joining Don Bradman (1947–48 vs India) and Sunil Gavaskar (1978–79 vs Antilles). Gill is the only player to score four centuries in his first test series as a captain, going beyond the previous joint record of three prisoners by Bradman, Greg Chappell, Virat Kohli, Steven Smith and Warwick Armstrong.Gill’s Hunged in Old Trafford also ended a 35 -year -old drought for Indian Centurions on the site – the last being the emblematic 119 of Sachin Tentulkar in 1990.In the era of the World Test Championship, the count of Gill of nine centuries in just 67 rounds is equal to the record of Rohit Sharma, reached in 69 rounds – emphasizing the rapid rise of Gill as one of the most prolific strikers of India.