Shubman Gill Breaks Don Bradman's 86-Year-Old Record with Sensational Century

Manchester (The Uttam Hindu) - Indian Test team captain Shubman Gill has created history by playing a brilliant innings of 103 runs against England at Old Trafford. With his fourth century, he has now equaled the great Don Bradman in terms of scoring the most centuries as a captain in a Test series. With this, he has also become the first player to score four centuries in his first Test series as a captain.

Gill created a historic record

This was Gill's fourth century in this series. He is only the third Indian to do so. Before him, only Sunil Gavaskar (1971, 1978) and Virat Kohli (2014-15) had achieved this feat. He broke Don Bradman's 86-year-old record. Gill is now the captain with the most hundreds in a Test series in England (4 centuries, Bradman had scored 4 in the 1938 Ashes. With this innings, Gill equalled Virat Kohli and Sunil Gavaskar for most hundreds for India in a single Test series. This is the first time he has played more than 200 balls to score a century. He reached triple figures off his 228th ball today; his previous slowest century was 199 in the first innings of the Edgbaston Test. The 25-year-old created history at Edgbaston with two centuries 269 and 161 and scored 430 runs in the Test, the second-highest total in Test history.

Jofra Archer broke the concentration of Shubman Gill with the new ball, who played a strong shot on the ball outside the off stump, but the ball went into the hands of Jamie Smith. After Gill's dismissal, India's two left-handed batsmen Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar are at the crease. Vice-captain Rishabh Pant suffered a right leg injury on Chris Woakes' yorker in the first innings, so all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar have the challenge of drawing the match by building a big partnership.