NEW DELHI: India captain Shubman Gill continued his scintillating run with the bat and etched his identify deeper into the report books on Day 4 of the fourth Take a look at towards England at Previous Trafford on Saturday. With an unbeaten 78 in India’s second innings, Gill surpassed Virat Kohli‘s iconic 692-run tally from the 2014-15 Australia tour to develop into the very best run-getter by an Indian batter on a single SENA tour (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia).Go Past The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Gill’s whole within the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy now stands at a outstanding 697 runs, with one full day left in Manchester and one other Take a look at to go at The Oval. At simply 25 years previous, the younger captain is rewriting benchmarks set by legends.
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By overtaking Kohli, Gill additionally moved to second on the listing of most runs scored by an Indian Take a look at captain in a single collection, throughout dwelling and away situations. Solely Sunil Gavaskar’s 732 runs towards the West Indies in 1978–79 lie forward. Gavaskar’s tally got here in a six-Take a look at collection — a feat Gill now has a real likelihood to surpass with two innings left on this collection.
Gill additionally turned the highest-scoring Asian batter in a Take a look at collection in England, overtaking Mohammad Yousuf’s 631-run tally from 2006.With three centuries already within the collection, if Gill converts his present unbeaten 78 right into a fourth hundred on Day 5, he’ll be a part of the legendary Don Bradman and Gavaskar for probably the most a whole lot (4) in a single Take a look at collection by a captain.Earlier within the day, India endured a nightmare begin of their second innings as Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudharsan fell for geese. However Gill and KL Rahul, who stays unbeaten on 87, stitched collectively a superb 174-run partnership to assist India finish Day 4 on 174/2, nonetheless trailing by 137 runs after England’s mammoth 669.
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