Captain Shubman Gill created history by smashing his highest score in First-class cricket. England struggles after losing 3 early wickets. Shubman Gill played a knock to be remembered for ages as smashing 269 runs isn’t a kind of fluke where he dictated the terms from ball 1 with sheer patience and timing.
Captain Shubman Gill on a roll
Shubman Gill smashed 269 runs yesterday, which is the highest score by an Indian captain, and the 7th highest score by an Indian batter in test cricket. He broke many records with his marathon performance.
The highest individual score by an Indian in tests:
- Virender Sehwag – 319 vs SA ( 2008 )
- Virender Sehwag – 309 vs PAK ( 2004 )
- Karun Nair – 303* vs ENG ( 2016 )
- Virender Sehwag – 293 vs SL ( 2009 )
- VVS Laxman – 281 vs AUS ( 2001 )
- Rahul Dravid – 270 vs PAK ( 2004 )
- Shubman Gill – 269 vs ENG ( 2025 )
- Virat Kohli – 254* vs SA ( 2019 )
Shubman Gill is the 6th Indian batter to score 250-plus runs. He is the first to do it outside Asia. This is also the highest score by an Indian captain and the highest by an Asian captain in Overseas conditions.
Highest score by Indian captains in Test cricket :
- Shubman Gill – 269 vs ENG ( 2025 )
- Virat Kohli – 254* vs SA ( 2019 )
- Virat Kohli – 243 vs SL ( 2017 )
- Virat Kohli – 235 vs ENG ( 2016 )
- MS Dhoni – 224 vs AUS ( 2013 )
Shubman Gill became the 5th Player to score a double hundred in both Tests and ODIs. Players to score double hundreds in Both test and ODI format:
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Virender Sehwag
- Chris Gayle
- Rohit Sharma
- Shubman Gill
He just fell 31 runs short of becoming the second player after Chris Gayle to score a 100 in T20Is, 200 in ODIs and a 300 in tests.
Shubman Gill’s 269 is the third highest score by a visiting batter at Edgbasten. He just fell 9 runs short of breaking the record of highest score at this venue.
Highest score by a visiting batter at Edgbaston:
- Graeme Smith – 277 ( 2003 )
- Zaheer Abbas – 274 ( 1971 )
- Shubman Gill – 269 ( 2025 )
Shubman Gill scored two centuries in his first two matches as a captain. He is only the 7th Captain, and 4th Indian Capatin to do this in test cricket history.
Captains to score centuries in their first two test matches as captain :
- Vijay Hazare
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Virat Kohli
- Jackie Mcglew
- Alastair Cook
- Steve Smith
- Shubman Gill
Shubma Gill became the third Indian to score a double hundred in test matches in England. Indians to score double ton in England :
- Sunil Gavaskar – 221 at Oval ( 1979 )
- Rahul Dravid – 217 at Oval ( 2002 )
- Shubman Gill – 269 at Edgbasten ( 2025 )
Ravindra Jadeja removes his sword
India were struggling at 211/5 at one point, with losing Rishabh Pant and Nitish Kumar Reddy in back-to-back deliveries. He stood with the Captain and made a huge partnership of 203 runs for the 6th wicket. He got out for 89 runs, missed his second century at Edgbaston by 11 runs.
This is the 3rd time, Jadeja has been involved in a 200-plus run partnership for the 6th wicket or below in test cricket. Only three players have involved in more such partnerships in the lower order.
- Adam Gilchrist – 6
- BJ Watling – 5
- MS Dhoni – 4
- Ravindra Jadeja – 3
This is Jadeja’s 23rd half-century in test cricket. He broke Gambhir’s record and become the batter to score the second most half-centuries for India in test cricket by a left-handed batter.
Most fifties by a left-handed batter for India in test cricket :
- Sourav Ganguly – 35
- Ravindra Jadeja – 23
- Gautam Gambhir – 22
- Rishabh Pant – 15
- Ajit Wadekar – 14
- Yashasvi Jaiswal – 11
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