Sandy Verma
Tezzbuzz|21-06-2025
Shubman Gill Achieve Virat Kohli’s Record: Indian cricket is currently going through a change of change, where after the retirement of experienced players, the team is now playing a five -match Test series on a five -match tour of England under the captaincy of Shubman Gill with young faces. Before this series, many questions were being raised about Team India.
However, in the first Test match being played against England in Leeds, Indian players made it clear from their performance that they are fully prepared for every challenge. On the first day, Shubman Gill was the important link of Team India’s brilliant performance, who scored a brilliant century in his captaincy debut. During this innings, Gill has also equaled a special record of Virat Kohli.
Shubman Gill often considers Virat Kohli as his inspiration and in this match he did a big act while following his map. In 2014, when Virat Kohli made his Test debut against Australia, he scored a century. Now Shubman Gill has also equaled this record of Virat Kohli by scoring a century in his captaincy debut.
Shubman Gill has become the fourth batsman to score a century in a debut match as captain in Indian Test history. Prior to them, this achievement has been named after Virat Kohli (2014 vs Australia), Sunil Gavaskar (1976 vs New Zealand) and Vijay Hazare (1951 vs England).
On the first day of the Leeds Test, England won the toss and invited India to bat. But the Indian batsmen did not give the English bowlers a chance to recover. By the end of the first day’s play, India have scored 259 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. Apart from Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal also scored a brilliant century in this match, while vice -captain Rishabh Pant is holding a half -century at the crease.
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