Shubman Gill has created panic with his bat as soon as he became the captain of Team India. Gill, who is captaining for the first time in the Leeds Test against England, has made a tremendous debut of his captivity by scoring a century. In the first match of the Test series, which started on Friday 20 June in Leeds, the new Indian captain Gill gathered a surprise century. In the first innings of Team India on the first day of the Test match, Gill scored the sixth century of his career. Along with this, Gill’s name was recorded in the list of few players who scored a century in the captaincy debut in Test cricket.
Everyone was eyeing Gill in this first match of the Test series being played in the headingley. With this Test series, the journey of his Test captaincy started. But before this, his Test record was very bad in countries outside Asia including England. Due to this, everyone wanted to see whether Gill improves his record under the pressure of captaincy. But at the age of just 25, Gill, who took command of Team India, gave a befitting reply to it on the first day.
Consciousness on the very first day of his captaincy
At the beginning of the second session of the first day, Gill landed for batting. This was not only his first innings as a captain, but he was batting for the first time in the number four position. In such a situation, this was an important test for Gill and he passed it in a great way. While Yashasvi Jaiswal first completed his century, Gill also achieved this special place in Test cricket before the last session of the day was over. Gill completed the sixth century of his career by scoring a befitting four off Josh Tung in the 75th over. His century came in only 140 balls, including 14 fours.
𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐬 💯@Shubmangill Joins an elite list as the 4th Indian captain to score a test debut as skipper 🇮🇳
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Such a century for the first time in career
This century of Gill was special in many ways because not only did he make some special records, but also responded to critics. Before this innings, Gill did not get even a half -century in any Test match outside Asia in the last four and a half years. He had failed in the last 18 innings. But this time not only crossed the 50 mark, but also scored his first Test century outside Asia. At the same time, this is his only second century on foreign land. Earlier in December 2022, he had hit hundreds of against Bangladesh in Chitgaon.
The youngest Indian captain to score a century in his debut
If we talk about records, then he became the youngest Indian captain to score a century in the first innings in the captaincy debut match. He broke the record of Virat Kohli (26 years, 34 days) by doing this amazing at the age of just 25 years 285 days. At the same time, he is the fourth youngest captain to do so in the whole world. Not only this, he is only the fourth Indian to score a century in Captaincy Debut. Before him, Vijay Hazare (1951), Sunil Gavaskar (1976) and Kohli (2014) also did this wonders. Overall, he is the 23rd such batsman who scored a century in the Test captaincy debut innings.
