Hyderabad: Shubman Gill has been unstoppable in the ongoing Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy, and he has been racking up record after record. The Indian skipper continued his scoring momentum in the second Test as well, scoring centuries in both innings of the Test match. There were speculations around the pressure of captaincy wearing him down, but Gill has shown that he is one of those characters who would not tremble in the moment of decisiveness. By scoring a hundred in the second innings of the second Test, Gill broke a 54-year-old record of Sunil Gavaskar.
Gill surpasses Virat Kohli and Sunil Gavaskar
Gill shattered Kohli’s record of most runs by an Indian captain in a debut Test series. Kohli amassed 449 runs in the 2014-15 tour of Australia and Gill overtook the tally in only the fourth innings of his Test captaincy. He also became the Indian skipper to score 300 runs in a Test. Earlier, the record was held by Virat Kohli, who scored 243 and 50 in a Test match against Sri Lanka in 2017.
India skipper Shubman Gill follows up his double hundred with another 💯 at Edgbaston 👏#WTC27 #ENGvIND 📝: https://t.co/Av3A67xTry pic.twitter.com/BLABEIsdeL
— ICC (@ICC) July 5, 2025
The 25-year-old is also in fourth position in the list of most runs by an Indian in a Test series in England. He is now behind Sunil Gavaskar (542), Virat Kohli (593), and Rahul Dravid (602) in the elite list.
Most importantly, Gill broke Gavaskar’s 54-year-old record of most runs by an Indian in a Test match. The veteran cricketer had scored 344 runs across two innings against the West Indies in 1971. Gill surpassed him when he hit a six to Shoaib Bashir in the 53rd over of the innings.
🚨 HISTORY CREATED BY GILL. 🚨
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) July 5, 2025
- Shubman Gill has most runs in a Test match for India. 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/UdD0OFI99l
Also, he became only the third Indian captain to score centuries in both innings of a Test match.
The highest aggregates for India in a Test match
- 430 - Shubman Gill vs ENG, Edgbaston, 2025
- 344 - Sunil Gavaskar vs WI, Port of Spain, 1971
- 340 - VVS Laxman vs AUS, Kolkata, 2001
- 330 - Sourav Ganguly vs PAK, Bengaluru, 2007
- 319 - Virender Sehwag vs SA, Chennai, 2008
- 309 - Virender Sehwag vs PAK, Multan, 2004
India's captains with hundreds in both innings of a Test
- Sunil Gavaskar vs WI, Kolkata, 1978
- Virat Kohli vs AUS, Adelaide, 2014
- Shubman Gill vs ENG, Edgbaston, 2025
