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Gill 25 -year -old Gill scored 269 runs and brought India to a huge score of 587 runs in the first innings. With this innings, Gill became Indian captain to score a double century in Tests on foreign soil.
Delhi: On the second day of the Edgbaston Test between India and England, Shubman Gill scored a double century while batting brilliantly. Gill 25 -year -old Gill scored 269 runs and brought India to a huge score of 587 runs in the first innings. With this innings, Gill became the Indian captain to score a double century in Tests on foreign soil, which is the biggest personal score ever.
Michael Athrthon’s comment on Kohli and Tendulkar
During this historic innings of Gill, former England captain Michael Etharton commented and took a light pinch on Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar. He said that Gill is now replacing those veterans at number 4, but Kohli and Tendulkar could never make a double century in England.
Acherton praised Gill fiercely applauded
However, Etharton also praised Gill’s batting fiercely. He said that it was a strong and disinterested innings. Gill did not give England a chance all the time and his cover drive was worth seeing. He said, “Gill’s game is very attractive and he has batted in excellent rhythm.”
Gill talked about hard work
After the end of the day’s play, Gill talked about his innings. He told that before this series, he had done a lot of work on his batting and he got a good result. He said, “I worked on some things which were necessary for me in Test cricket and so far it is getting good results.”
Indian bowlers perform well
England started very poorly in response to India’s first innings. Fast bowler Akash Deep dismissed Ben Docket and Oli Pope without opening an account in a single over. At the same time, Mohammad Siraj walked the Zack Croly and England’s score at 25/3 at one time.
Root and Brooke handled the innings
However, after this, Joe Root and Harry Brook took over the innings and England scored 72/3 runs by the end of the day’s play. Route was unbeaten on 18 runs and Brook 30 runs. England are still 510 runs behind India and it will be interesting to see what happens in the third day game.
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