IND vs ENG: Records galore as Shubman Gill joins Don Bradman, Gary Sobers in historic feat | Cricket News

India’s captain Shubman Gill celebrates after scoring a century. (AP Photo)

Shubman Gill scripted historical past on Wednesday, turning into simply the ninth visiting captain – and the second Indian – to attain centuries in each the primary and second Tests of a collection in England, becoming a member of the exalted firm of Don Bradman, Garfield Sobers, and Graeme Smith.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The 25-year-old, captaining India for the primary time in Tests, adopted up his 147 at Headingley with an impressive 114 not out on Day 1 at Edgbaston. His effort led India to 310/5 at stumps, stabilising the innings after a mid-innings wobble.

The listing of visiting captains with tons in every of the primary two Tests in England reads like a Hall of Fame: Bradman (1938), Sobers (1966), Mohammad Azharuddin (1990), and now Gill (2025). Gill etched his identify into folklore with two tons at Headingley and Edgbaston.

Gill’s feats as captain have arrived with astonishing velocity. He’s solely the fourth Indian skipper to hit centuries in every of his first two Tests as captain – after Virat Kohli, Vijay Hazare, and Sunil Gavaskar. He additionally turned simply the second Indian captain to succeed in three figures at Edgbaston, becoming a member of Kohli, and the third to put up a fifty-plus rating there alongside Dhoni.Even extra impressively, Gill joined an elite membership of Indian batters – Azharuddin, Vengsarkar, and Rahul Dravid – to attain a whole bunch in three consecutive Tests in opposition to England, underlining his rising stature in a marquee rivalry.Adding to the statistical spectacle, Gill additionally turned the third India captain to attain a whole bunch in consecutive Tests in opposition to England – after Hazare (1951–52) and Azharuddin (1990) – and reached the two,000-run milestone in Tests in his captaincy debut, identical to Kohli did in Adelaide in 2014.Gill’s innings wasn’t nearly milestones – it was about management underneath strain. Coming in at 95/2, he absorbed the strain, stitched a 66-run stand with Yashasvi Jaiswal (87), after which an unbeaten 99-run partnership with Ravindra Jadeja (41*), main from the entrance after a collapse that had left India at 211/5.With his century nonetheless in progress, Gill now carries not solely the hopes of India’s batting but in addition the load of expectation as a younger captain already amongst cricket’s elite.