Shubman Gill carved his identify into cricketing folklore with file knocks of 269 off 387 and 161 off 162 within the the second Check of the continuing five-match sequence between England and India. He shattered an entire lot of data with one of many best shows of batting within the longest format of the sport.
Gill aggregated 430 runs at Edgbaston, taking him to the second place within the listing for the best Check match aggregates for a batter. Gill can also be the one Indian to be current within the high 5 of the esteemed listing consisting of a few of world cricket’s most interesting batters.
Highest Check match aggregates for a batter (as of July 5, 2025):
| Participant | Opposition | Venue | Yr | Particular person Scores | Mixture Rating |
| Graham Gooch | India | Lord’s | 1990 | 333, 123 | 456 |
| Shubman Gill | England | Edgbaston | 2025 | 269, 161 | 430 |
| Mark Taylor | Pakistan | Peshawar | 1998 | 334*, 92 | 426 |
| Kumar Sangakkara | Bangladesh | Chattogram | 2014 | 319, 105 | 424 |
| Brian Lara | England | St John’s | 2004 | 400, DNB | 400 |
India declared on 427/6 in 83 overs, a few overs after Gill departed, setting a whopping 608-run goal for the hosts with just a little over three classes left within the Check. The Gill-led unit has given themselves a correct shot to levelling the sequence after taking place by 5 wickets within the sequence opener at Headingley.
Gill’s 430-run compilation had 43 fours and 11 sixes, including to 238 runs solely from boundaries, which is one other file because it quantities to greater than 55% of his match mixture.
After attending to his 150 in India’s second innings, Gill additionally grew to become solely the second batter to register 150-plus scores in each innings of a Check match after the good Allan Border (150* & 153) in opposition to Pakistan in Lahore in 1980.
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