England-India: Gill breaks Tendulkar record in second Test

With 269 runs, skipper Shubman Gill breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s grounds for astir scored extracurricular the Indian subcontinent connected time 2 of 2nd Test.

England person stumbled to 77-3 to way India by 510 runs connected time 2 of their 2nd Test aft skipper Shubman Gill scored a record-breaking 269 and their seamers struck aboriginal to enactment the tourists successful a commanding presumption astatine Edgbaston.

India were charged up connected Thursday erstwhile Akash Deep picked up 2 wickets successful 2 balls earlier Mohammed Siraj besides got successful connected the enactment to cleanable up England’s apical bid and permission them tottering astatine 25-3 connected what had been a bully batting wicket.

Ben Duckett nicked a shot to 3rd slip, wherever Gill took a astute diving drawback earlier Ollie Pope fell the precise adjacent transportation for a duck erstwhile Deep drew an borderline and the shot flew to KL Rahul successful the slips.

Dropped catches had outgo India the archetypal Test astatine Headingley, but this time, they stuck arsenic Siraj drew an borderline from Zak Crawley to find Karun Nair astatine archetypal slip.

“Fielding was decidedly 1 of those things we spoke astir arsenic a team, and it’s large to spot that travel disconnected truthful far,” Gill told the broadcaster Sky Sports.

“This crippled was each astir confidence. We spoke astir if we scored 400 again, batting archetypal oregon batting second, we would beryllium close successful the game.”

Harry Brook (30) survived a reappraisal for LBW acknowledgment to the umpire’s call, but helium and Joe Root (18) absorbed the unit to spot retired the time with an unbeaten 52-run partnership.

Record-breaking Gill

Earlier, Gill became the archetypal Indian to people much than 250 extracurricular the Indian subcontinent, breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s grounds of 241, portion helium besides recorded the highest people by an India skipper erstwhile helium went past Virat Kohli’s 254.

Gill had hardly enactment a ft incorrect implicit the archetypal 2 days of the Test, but helium concisely mislaid his attraction aft beverage erstwhile helium tried to dispatch a abbreviated shot from Josh Tongue, lone to find Pope astatine quadrate leg.

But the Edgbaston assemblage roseate to their feet to salute the captain’s sound arsenic helium walked backmost to the pavilion, his occupation done aft India recovered themselves reeling astatine 211-5 on time one.

“I worked connected a fewer things earlier the bid that I thought mightiness beryllium important for maine going into Test cricket,” said Gill, who has scored 424 runs successful the series.

“Looking astatine the results, they are moving for me.”

Gill celebrates reaching 200 during time 2 of the 2nd Test [Stuart Leggett/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

Having resumed connected an overnight people of 310-5, Jadeja and Gill built a 203-run basal earlier the all-rounder fell to a Tongue bouncer, but Gill looked wholly astatine easiness connected a level way that offered precious small assistance.

As England’s bowlers toiled nether the summertime sun, Gill hardly broke a sweat and enactment a terms connected his wicket arsenic helium showcased his array of elegant drives and well-timed flicks to heap connected the runs.

Take a bow, Shubman

Gill made his trademark bow erstwhile again aft becoming the archetypal India skipper to people a double-hundred successful England and soon broke Sunil Gavaskar’s 46-year-old grounds for the highest people by an Indian successful England (221 successful 1979).

He was soon toying with the onslaught and the placement of fielders, coolly switching betwixt sublime and unorthodox shots arsenic helium dispatched the shot to each corners of the ground.

With Washington Sundar playing patiently astatine the different end, Gill was successful Twenty20 mode arsenic they cruised past the 500-mark and a uncommon extracurricular borderline went for a bound to instrumentality the skipper to 250.

Root yet broke the seventh-wicket concern of 144 erstwhile a transportation broke done the defence of Sundar arsenic helium departed for a well-made 42.

India’s process added lone 13 runs aft Gill’s dismissal, but that gave their bowlers 20 overs to instrumentality a ace astatine England’s batters connected a fruitful time arsenic they look to level the series.

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