Shubman Gill slams back-to-back Test hundreds as captain, joins elite list of India skippers

Indian Test team captain Shubman Gill is in excellent form at the moment. He scored his second century in England on Wednesday. Gill smashed a brilliant hundred in the first innings of the second Test currently being played at Edgbaston.

Earlier, he had also scored a century in the first innings of the first Test of the series. This was Gill’s seventh Test century and his fourth against England. He brought up his hundred with a boundary. The 25-year-old now has 16 international centuries to his name.

Gill has become only the third Indian captain to score centuries in back-to-back Tests against England, joining the elite company of Vijay Hazare and Mohammad Azharuddin.

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India battled hard to reach 310 for 5 against England on the opening day of the second Test here on Wednesday.

While Jaiswal once again gave India a solid start with an aggressive 87, laced with 13 boundaries, Gill showed a lot of composure and discretion in shot selection to score his seventh Test century.

Karun Nair (31) and Rishabh Pant (25) threw away their wickets after getting starts while Nitish Reddy (1) was completely clueless when a Chris Woakes nip-backer jagged back sharply.

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India were in a spot of bother at 211 for five but veteran Ravindra Jadeja once again showed his true value as a batter in SENA countries with an unbeaten 41 off 67 balls. The duo added 99 runs for the unbroken sixth-wicket stand.

For England, Chris Woakes took two wickets while skipper Ben Stokes, Brydon Carse and Shoaib Bashir took a wicket apiece.

(With agency inputs)