The Indian pattern Shubman Gill became the third Indian and fifth batter in general to crush a double century in Odi and Test Cricket. The incredible milestone achieved the second day of the second current test against England in Edgbaston in Nottingham on Thursday, July 3. Gill joined the elite list with the former unconditional of India Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, the Odi Rohit Sharma pattern and the legendary of the Western Indies Chris Gayle.

Elite list: batters with double tons in both formats

The batter on the right recorded his Double one hundred of Odi inaugural against New Zealand in 2023 in Hyderabad, and this double ton against England in Edgbaston. Tendulkar was the first batter in the world to achieve a unique record when he registered the first ODI Double one hundred in 2010 against South Africa in Gwalior, while his first century of evidence in 1999 against New Zealand in Ahmedabad. In particular, Sachin Tendulkar has six double tons in the red ball cryket, the second one after Kohli virat, which has seven.

Sehwag was the second batter to reach the milestone with a double one hundred against the Western Indies in Indore in 2011. Before that, he already had three double names in the trial cricket and a couple of triple centuries as well. The list was followed by Gayle, who already had a double -century test, after scoring against New Zealand in 2002 a Queen’s park, Trinidad. He scored his only double one hundred in Odi against Zimbabwe during the 2015 ODI World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The fourth batter on the list was Rohit Sharma, who has the largest (three) double tons in Odi, reached the feat in 2019 when he accumulated 212 against South Africa in Ranchi.

Broken records like Captain

With this feat, the 25 -year -old became the first Asian captain to score a double century in England and in all Sena countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia). The best previous one was 193 by Tillakarathne Dilshan in Lord’s in 2011.

Gill also broke the 34 -year record of Azharuddin by Mohammed Azharuddin for the highest individual test score of an Indian captain in England. He exceeded the 179 of Azhar in Old Trafford in 1990, since he had already crossed the 200 mark and remains undefeated at the time of writing the article.

This is only the second double one hundred by an Indian captain in a test abroad, after the 200 of Virat Kohli in North Sound in 2016.

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Broken records as a player

Gill also registered the highest individual score of an Indian batter in England’s tests. He exceeded the legendary 221 of the legendary Sunil Gavaskar in the Oval in 1979. He also became the third Indian to publish a 200+ score on English land after the former captain and chief coach Rahul Dravid 217 in the Oval in 2002 and Gavaskar 221 in 1979. Notably. I was averaging only 25 in Sena’s countries before the series.

There have been 11 hundred double by a captain in the tests in England (four for the hosts, seven for visiting teams). Gill became the youngest Indian and the second youngest in general to do so. Only Grame Smith of South Africa reached a younger age than the 25 -year -old Gill when he accumulated 277 and 259 in consecutive tests in Edgbaston and Lord’s in 2003, the first at 22y, 175d.

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