Indian captain Shubman Gill is performing brilliantly in the five-match Test series being played for Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against England. Shubman Gill has now rained the records on the first day of the match being played at the Oval ground in London.
Shubham Gill has now also become the highest run -scorer in a Test series in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia). Shubman broke the great West Indies player Sir Gary Sobers. Sobers scored 722 runs as captain in the five -match series against England in 1966.
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Shubman Gill has now become the Indian captain to score the most runs in a Test series. Shubman Gill broke Sunil Gavaskar’s record, who scored 732 runs in the domestic Test series against West Indies in 1978-79. Virat Kohli’s number comes after Shubman and Gavaskar.
Most runs in a Test series (Indian captain)
733* – Shubman Gill vs England, 2025
732- Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies, 1978/79
655- Virat Kohli vs England, 2016/17
610- Virat Kohli vs Sri Lanka, 2017/18
593- Virat Kohli vs England, 2018
Before the start of the Oval Test match, Indian captain Shubman Gill needed only 1 run to break the record of Gary Sobers, while Sunil needed 11 runs to demolish Gavaskar’s record. Shubman broke the record of these two veterans in the first session of the first day in the Oval Test match. Shubman can make many more records in this match.
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There have been four changes in the Indian team’s playing-11 for the Oval Test match. Rishabh Pant, Jaspreet Bumrah, Anshul Kamboj and Shardul Thakur are not parts of this match. Dhruv Jurael, famous Krishna, Akash Deep and Karun Nair have got a chance in his place. Please tell that Rishabh Pant was out of the Oval Test match due to injury. At the same time, Jaspreet Bumrah got a rest under workload management. While Anshul Kamboj and Shardul Thakur have been dropped.
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