Will Shubman Gill be able to break Bradman’s record?Image Credit Source: PTI
Shubman Gill’s journey as the captain of Team India may not have started with victory, but he has definitely won hearts with his bat. Gill’s Test record was under question before becoming captain and England’s tour. He did not score 100 runs in England. But now in just 4 innings, Gill has answered every question arising on his ability by scoring about 600 runs. Rather, now everyone is asking the question that will they be able to break the record of the most runs of the great batsman Don Bradman? They have 6 innings left to answer this.
Just before the start of this series, Shubman Gill had said that he wants to become the best batsman during these 5 Tests. Gill has proved it so far by scoring 3 centuries including a double century in the first 2 Tests played in Leeds and Edgbaston. Before this tour, Shubman Gill played 59 innings in his Test career, in which only 1893 runs were scored on his bat. After the Test debut in December 2020, he could not complete even 2 thousand runs in about 5 years. But he changed the situation in just 4 innings in England.
Gill scored a double century in Leeds and then in the first innings in Edgbaston and Gill scored a century in the second innings. In this way, he has scored 585 runs in only 4 innings of the series, which is currently about 24 percent of his career run. It is enough to tell what kind of batting Gill has done in this series. Already, he has broken many big records and now on everyone’s tongue, the question is whether he will be able to break the record of the highest run of the greatest Australian batsman Bradman in a series?
Bradman, the only batsman with an average of 99.94 in cricket history, scored 974 runs in a series against England in 1930, about 95 years ago. Along with this, Bradman then set a new record and this record has been intact since then. Many batsmen were seen getting closer to it but then no one could cross the 900 -run figure. Now after about a century, Gill is seen in a position to break this record. There are still 3 matches left in this Test series and in such a situation Gill will have a chance to play 6 innings. If the Indian captain scored 389 runs in these 6 innings, he will break Bradman’s record. Apparently this is not going to be easy, but the kind of form in the form will have expectations.
