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Shubman Gill Hundrd vs England: Shubman Gill, as captain, has started with a century in England. He is captaining the Indian team in England. This is Gill’s first century in England as captain. He head …Read more
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Highlights
- Shubman Gill scored a century in England as captain
- Gill achieved a big achievement in third session on the first day of the first Test match
- Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a century before Gill from India
New Delhi. Shubman Gill, the new Test captain of the Indian team, created history as soon as the captaincy took place. Gill has become the youngest Indian captain to score a century in England. The way the Indian team started with Gill, they started in the same manner. Gill applied a series of fours as soon as he arrived. Gill started in England with a century as a captain. What could have been better from this. He hit his half -century after 18 innings. After this, after scoring a century, he also gave a befitting reply to his critics. Gill has become the fourth Indian to score a century in a debut match as captain. Earlier, Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar and Virat Kohli have done this feat.
Jaiswal scored the fifth century of Test career
Earlier, the Indian team had scored 215 runs for 2 wickets till T break. Both Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill played a different style from each other. But together they shared an unbeaten 123 -run partnership for the third wicket. Jaiswal (100 not out) hit 16 fours and a six in 144 balls to complete his fifth century. Gill scored his eighth half -century in 56 balls. India did not lose a single wicket in the second session. KL Rahul (42 runs) earlier from lunch and B Sai Sudarshan, who made his debut, fell. Sudarshan could not even open an account.
Jaiswal batted restrained restrained, especially outside the off stump while he is usually seen blowing the bowlers. Recently, this 23 -year -old batsman made by the left -arm batsman playing for India A against England Lions did not reiterate them in this innings. However, England bowlers also helped who struggled to get the right line and length, which gave Indian batsmen full opportunities to score runs. Jaiswal also made some great shots during this innings. He hit a great off-drive shot off the ball of fast bowler Josh Tung and hit a brilliant six off the ball of this bowler.
Shubman Gill stayed on general strategy
At the same time, Gill was adamant on the general strategy of batting. He made a great shots on on-side and off-side. The 25-year-old team mesmerized the audience by putting another shot after off-drive off the ball of Chris Woakes. Jaiswal soon completed his century by taking a run off the ball of Bridan cars and celebrated it by jumping into the air.
Earlier, he hit points and fours on the cover on this bowler. In the morning session, openers KL Rahul (42 runs) and Jaiswal faced England’s attack and made 91 runs for the first wicket by adding 91 runs. But after Rahul was dismissed at the last moment of the first session, Sudarshan could not even open an account. The ‘movement’ and swing were seen in the pitch for the fast bowlers. But the Indian openers batted well in the morning. In the bowling attack of England, there was a shortage of James Anderson and Stuart Broad due to which he could not disturb the Indian batsmen.
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Active in journalism for nearly 15 years. Study from Delhi University. Interest in sports, especially in cricket, badminton, boxing and wrestling. IPL, Commonwealth Games and Pro Wrestling League events have been covered. From February 2022 … Read more