Desk. Shubman Gill is performing very well on the England tour and has rained runs in the Test Series. In front of him, the British bowlers have proved to be absolutely breathless. The opposing bowlers did not understand during the entire Test series whether the strategy should be adopted. Now Gill has scored a century in the fourth Test match, which is his fourth century in the ongoing Test series. He is present at the crease by scoring 101 runs.
Shubman Gill has so far scored a total of 715 runs in the Test series against England. With this, he has become only the second Indian captain to score 700+ runs in one Test series. Prior to that, Sunil Gavaskar scored 732 runs in the 1978/79 Test series against West Indies. Apart from Gavaskar and Gill, no Indian captain could score 700+ runs in a Test series.
Apart from this, the world record of scoring the most centuries as captain in one Test series was the name of Don Bradman and Sunil Gavaskar. Bradman had scored four centuries against Australia in the 1947/48 Test series and Gavaskar in the 1978/79 Test series against West Indies. Now Shubman Gill has scored four centuries in the Test series against England as captain and has equaled the records of both these veterans.
Shubman Gill scored 147 runs in the first Test against England. After this, his performance in the second Test came out further. In this match, he blown the British bowlers. He scored 269 runs in the first innings and 161 runs in the second innings. It was because of him that the Indian team won the match by 336 runs. Now in the fourth Test match, he is batting well and has scored a century.