IND vs ENG: After captaincy and runs, Shubman Gill gets aura, Virat Kohli calls him ‘star boy’
India’s captain Shubman Gill celebrates after scoring a century during day four of the second Test against England at Edgbaston. (AP)
No batsman has scored a double hundred and a 150-plus score in the same Test match in the game’s 150-year-long history. Shubman Gill did that at Edgbaston. He did one better than the Aussie great Alan Border who had two 150s. No Indian batsman had scored 430 runs in a single Test. Gill went past Sunil Gavaskar’s run tally of 344 against West Indies in that storied Port of Spain Test in 1971.
On Saturday, cricketing history and folktales were being re-written by Shubman’s bat. So far in the series he had runs and the captaincy band, now he had an aura too.
