In 148 years of Test history, only one player has scored more runs in a single match than Shubman Gill.
Gill, on an incredible journey with the bat as a Test captain, produced another brilliant innings, scoring a double century and a century in the same match. This feat has added many more records to the young Indian captain’s name.
Gill achieved this remarkable double against England in the Edgbaston Test. After his 269 in the first innings, he scored 161 off 162 balls on day four, bringing his match total to 430 runs.
Gill became only the ninth cricketer in 148 years of Test cricket to score a double century and a century in the same match. Among Indian players, only Sunil Gavaskar had done this before—back in April 1971 against the West Indies at Port of Spain, with innings of 124 and 220 runs.
On English soil, only Graham Gooch had accomplished this before Gill, scoring 333 and 123 against India at Lord’s in 1990.
As a captain, Gooch was the only other player besides Gill to score a double century and a century in the same Test.
Gill is the first cricketer to score a double century and pass 150 runs in the same Test.
He is also the second player to score two innings of 150+ in a Test match—Alan Border achieved this against Pakistan in Lahore in 1980 (150* and 153).
Among Indian captains, only Gavaskar (against West Indies in Kolkata, 1978) and Virat Kohli (against Australia in Adelaide, 2014) had scored centuries in both innings of a Test before Gill.
Gill is the fifth cricketer to score 400 or more runs in a single Test. Only Gooch (456), Mark Taylor (426), Sangakkara (424), and Brian Lara (400) have scored more.
Gill’s 430 is the highest Test match total by any player outside their home country. The previous record was Mark Taylor’s 426 against Pakistan in Peshawar in 1998.
Gill is naturally the first Indian to score 400 runs in a single Test. Gavaskar’s combined double century and century of 344 runs against the West Indies in 1971 was the previous record.
Gill is the first batsman from the subcontinent to score over 300 runs in a Test on English soil. Previously, Zaheer Abbas held the record with 274 at Edgbaston in 1971.
Gill has scored three centuries in his first two Tests as captain—a feat only Kohli had managed before in Test history.
He is also the first cricketer to score over 500 runs in his first two matches as captain. Kohli’s previous record was 449 runs. Gavaskar is third with 429, and Steven Smith fourth with 367.
Gill has now scored 585 runs in this series, his debut as captain. Among Indian batsmen in England, only Kohli (593 in 2018) and Rahul Dravid (602 in 2002) have scored more runs in a single series.
With three Tests still left in this series, Gill’s continued run suggests reaching new heights is only a matter of time.
