Shubman Gill lit up the Headingley Cricket Ground with an unbeaten 127 on the opening day of the first Test match between India and England.The Indian captain reached his century in the closing session of the day, marking a memorable begin to his captaincy tenure.With the ton, Gill joined an elite group of Indians — Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, and Virat Kohli — who scored centuries of their first Test as captain.Remarkably, he had broken one in all his favorite bats throughout India’s intra-squad match at Beckenham, Kent. India’s new Test captain had texted Cricfix_batservices, an organization that repairs damaged and broken bats in Kent.In a video posted by the firm on Instagram, they defined how Shubman’s bat got broken and what they did to repair it.“So this bat actually belongs to an Indian Test match player,” the store’s proprietor will be heard saying in the video.“That’s right, today we’re repairing a bat from India captain Shubman Gill. We received a text saying that Shubman had damaged the toe of one of his bats during a training session, and he needed us to come and pick it up and sort it out ahead of the Test match.“As you’ll be able to see, it seems like he needed to dig out a nasty yorker throughout coaching, and it left this nasty indentation and a few splits that we wanted to repair. We made certain to connect up all the cracks after which apply a small wedge into the toe, which pushed up the broken space and made the toe good and flat once more.“Then we lightly sanded the bat, as it’s one of Shubman’s favourites and he didn’t want to affect the ping in any way.“Coming to the finish of the restore, we gave the bat a buff and polish to make it look good and glossy. Shubman additionally requested us to use some thread binding to the toe to maintain the weak space tight, and he opted for a cloth going through, so we utilized that as effectively.“Here’s the finished bat, looking brand new once again — toe repair all sorted. It was really cool to see him using it again in training the next day. I’m wishing him all the best for the series ahead.”One of the followers even commented, “Looks like it’s working out for him! 127*.” To which the proprietor replied, “Not sure whether to be happy or not 😄.”India will resume Day 2 at 359 for 3. Vice-captain Rishabh Pant was batting on 65, giving Gill firm when stumps had been referred to as.
