Shubman Gill Breaks Sunil Gavaskar’s 50-Year-Old Test Record
Shubman Gill Breaks Sunil Gavaskar’s 50-year-old test record becomes number one. Shubman Gill was a great discovery for the Indian team during the four-match Test series against Australia.
Shubman Gill showed that by his batting and his way of playing, he can play for the team for a long time. Shubman Gill batted technically competent and very mature in all three Tests played in Australia.
When Team India had a target of 328 runs in the fourth innings of the fourth Test match ie the Brisbane match, they played brilliant innings of 91 runs and played a big role in the team’s victory.
Shubman Gill breaks Sunil Gavaskar’s 50-year-old record. Although Shubman Gill missed only 9 runs to score the first century of his Test career, his innings played in the fourth innings of the Brisbane match was historic.
In fact, Shubman Gill now became the youngest opener batsman to score a half-century for India in the fourth innings of Test cricket. Shubman Gill did this feat at the age of 21 years 133 days.
He broke the 50-year-old record of former India opener batsman Sunil Gavaskar.
Gavaskar achieved this feat at the age of 21 years and 243 days. Shubman Gill superhit in Australia, Shubman Gill made his Test debut for India in the second Test match i.e. Melbourne.
This Test match was won by India and they scored 45 and 35 not out in the first and second innings of this match. After this, he was highly praised.
His performance as an opener also gave him a chance in the next matches and he scored 50 and 31 runs in the third i.e. Sydney Test match. After this, he scored 7 and 91 runs in the last Test i.e. Brisbane.
In three matches of this Test series, he scored 259 runs at an average of 51.80. He also hit 36 fours and 2 sixes in these matches.
