Gill 430, India 1014 – Records tumble at Edgbaston

Only Graham Gooch’s 456 against India at Lord’s in 1990 is higher than Shubman Gill‘s 430 total, which is currently the second-highest total by a batsman in a Test match. To date, five batsmen have scored 400 or more runs in a Test match, four of whom were captains; Kumar Sangakkara is the lone exception. The Indian record was previously held by Sunil Gavaskar, who scored 344 against the West Indies in 1971 at the Port of Spain.

Gill takes the lead.

highest totals for a batsman in a Test match

In addition to being the second-highest total by an Indian, Gill’s 430 is the ninth-highest total for any player in a first-class match, after Bhausaheb Nimbalkar’s 443 for Maharashtra against Kathiawar at Pune in December 1948. After Angelo Perera’s 432 for Nondescripts CC at Colombo (PSS) in 2019, it’s also the second-highest in the twenty-first century.

Gill is the most recent of nine hitters to register a double hundred and a hundred in a same Test match. It’s the first time it’s happened against England, and only Sunil Gavaskar had done that for India before, against the West Indies at Port of Spain in 1971. Furthermore, after Gooch at Lord’s in 1990, Gill is the second player in England to accomplish this feat while leading the team.

2. In addition, Gill became only the second batter to score 150 or more in both Test innings, following Allan Border, who achieved this feat against Pakistan in Lahore in 1980 (150* & 153).

2-The India captain also joined Dhruv Shorey, who scored 252* and 150* for Delhi against Assam in Guwahati during the Ranji Trophy 2022–2023—as the second player to get 250 and 150 in the same first-class match.

3-Gill set a joint-record of three hundreds in his first two Test matches as captain, joining Virat Kohli, who recorded three consecutive hundreds in Australia in 2014–15. Vijay Hazare, Jackie McGlew, Greg Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar, Alastair Cook, Steven Smith, and Dhananjaya de Silva were among the seven others who received three apiece.

In his first Test series as India’s captain, Gill presently has the most runs (585). The previous record was held by Kohli, who scored 449 in two Test matches while captaining Australia in 2014–15.

3. After Gavaskar against the West Indies (Kolkata, 1978) and Kohli against Australia (Adelaide, 2014), Gill became the third Indian captain to score hundreds in both innings of a Test match. In addition, he is the third Indian to reach three hundred runs in a Test series against England, behind Rahul Dravid in 2002 and 2011 (away) and Mohammad Azharuddin in 1984/85 (home).

Only Rohit Sharma (13 versus SA, Visakhapatnam, 2019) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (12 vs ENG, Rajkot, 2024) among Indians have struck more sixes than Gill’s 11 in this Test.

India scale mount 1000

India scored 1014 runs in the two innings of this Test, which was much over their own previous best of 916 in Sydney in 2003–04 and the fourth-highest total in a match ever.

Over a thousand team totals in a test match

4-India reached 400 in both Test innings for the fourth time; they had done so against England (Rajkot, 2024), Sri Lanka (Ahmedabad, 2009), and Pakistan (Kolkata, 2004). In total, it was the thirteenth time a team had done so during a test match.

India breaks cooperation records

5. Following Hanif Mohammad (versus. WI, Bridgetown, 1958), Graham Gooch (vs. IND, Lord’s, 1990), Mark Taylor (against. PAK, Peshawar, 1998), and Joe Root (vs. PAK, Old Trafford, 2016), Gill became the fifth batter to be involved in four century partnerships in a Test match.

4-Gill and Ravindra Jadeja became just the fourth partnership in the history of the game to combine for 150-plus stands in both Test innings. The previous three pairings were Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis (202 & 173 vs BAN, Sylhet, 2024), Joe Burns and David Warner (161 & 237 vs NZ, Brisbane, 2015), and Paul Gibb and Eddie Paynter (184 & 168 vs SA, Johannesburg, 1938).