Shubman Gill achieves major milestone with second ton in Edgbaston Test

Shubman Gill, India’s youthful Test captain, made history by being just the second Indian and ninth player overall to hit a century and a double century in the same Test match. This uncommon accomplishment was made by the 25-year-old at Edgbaston during the second Test match against England.

Shubman Gill scored a tonne in the second innings after smashing his greatest Test score of 269 in the first.

With this, he set a new record of 369* runs in a single match, surpassing the legendary Sunil Gavaskar’s 344 runs against the West Indies in 1971. He now has three hundreds in four innings in his first series as captain.

Only nine hitters in Test history have achieved a double hundred and a tonne in a single match, and Gill is now one of them. After Gavaskar, he is the only other Indian to achieve so. After Graham Gooch’s historic performance against India at Lord’s in 1990, he is also the second captain in England to accomplish this feat.

He has participated in three 100-plus stands in this Test alone, something that only a select few Indian hitters, such as Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, have done in away Tests before. Gill and Rishabh Pant (55), who Gill teamed with on Day 4, added 110 off 103 balls. Later, as India’s advantage surpassed 480, the right-hander and Ravindra Jadeja formed a 68-run partnership. He hit nine fours and three sixes in his 129-ball century in the second inning.

In a single Test, nine batters achieved double hundreds.