To win the Birmingham Test, India gave England a target of 608 runs. On the fourth day of the match on Saturday, Shubman Gill scored 161 runs from India. He had scored 269 runs in the first innings, with this he became the first Indian to score 400 plus runs in a Test. Team India scored 1014 runs in both innings of the Test. For the first time in Test history, India crossed the 1000 run mark in a match.
Shubman Gill scored 161 runs in the second innings after scoring 269 runs in the first innings. He scored 430 runs in a Test. This is the highest number of runs in a Test by an Indian captain. Gill broke Virat Kohli’s record Who scored 293 runs in the match against Sri Lanka in 2017. Shubman Gill also became the highest run-scorer for India in a Test. He broke the record of Sunil Gavaskar, who scored 344 runs against West Indies in 1971.
Shubman Gill remained just 27 runs away from the record of scoring the most runs in a Test. The record of most runs in a Test is in the name of England’s Graham Gooch. He scored 456 runs against India in 1990. Shubman became only the 5th player in the world to score 400 plus runs in Tests.Then Gavaskar had scored a century in the first innings and a double century in the second innings. Gill became the second Indian player to score a century in one innings and a double century in the second.