Shubman Gill created history in Edgbaston Test match. (Photo-PTI)
Team India has retaliated in the Edgbaston Test match after suffering from England in the Leeds Test match. By the end of the second day’s play, England lost their three wickets for 77 runs in response to 587 runs in Team India’s first innings. Joe Root 18 and Harry Brook are playing 30 runs. On the second day of the second Test match, captain Shubman Gill remained completely dominated. He scored a double century for the first time in the Test match. Apart from this, Gill created history by scoring a double century in Edgbaston. He is the first Indian captain to score a double century in England. During this, Gill opened the secret of this double century.
What did Shubman Gill say?
Captain Shubman Gill, who scored a double century for the first time in the Test match, said a big thing after the end of the day’s play. In a special conversation with the official broadcaster Sony Sports Network, he said that after the failure of the lower -order batsmen in the first Test match, I thought that I do not have to lose wickets. Gill told that when I went to the dressing room during tea on the first day of Edgbaston Test match, head coach Gautam Gambhir told me that the ball is coming well on the bat, but the fours are not coming. At that time I was playing for about 42 runs.
Gill further said that I had thought that even though the runs came slowly, I do not have to lose wickets, because the runs came fast in the first Test match, but after the failure of the lower order batsmen, we lost the match. This time you do not have to do this. The Indian captain said that this time I was thinking of playing a big innings and I was successful in this. Shubman Gill scored 269 runs in 387 balls in the first innings with the help of 30 fours and 3 sixes.
Preparations for England tour during IPL
Shubman Gill told that during the last stage of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, I was making special preparations for the tour of England, which I benefited. He said that this is a good situation in which I am currently. I worked on some things, especially in the last phase of the Indian Premier League, which was very important before going to Test cricket.
Regarding the poor fielding of the team in the first Test, Gill said that I did not take any catch in the slip for the last few days because I was paying more attention to batting, but it was very good when I caught the catch of Ben Docket. The entire team is working hard on fielding. In the Leeds Test match, Indian players left 6 catches in the first innings and 2 in the second innings. Due to this, England won the first Test match by five wickets.
