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Shubman Gill’s start as India’s new Test captain couldn’t have gotten off to a better start, as he continues to break multiple captaincy records. The right-hander, on his way to his eighth half-century in Tests, on July 5 (Friday) in the second Test, broke Kohli’s aggregate of scoring the most runs for an Indian captain in a Test match.
Earlier in the Test, Gill became the first Indian captain to score 250 in Tests, ending with a 269 in just his second Test as India’s skipper. The 25-year-old continued that blazing run, with a second innings half-century, as he now has more than 300 runs in the ongoing Test.
308* - Shubman Gill vs ENG, Birmingham, 2025
293 - Virat Kohli vs SL, Delhi, 2017
289 - Sunil Gavaskar vs WI, Kolkata, 1978
278 - Sunil Gavaskar vs WI, Mumbai, 1978
256 - Virat Kohli vs AUS, Adelaide, 2014
Gill now has two centuries and a half-century in his first two Tests as India’s captain. Not just that, the Fazilka-born cricketer also went past Kohli and Sunil Gavaskar’s tally of most runs as India’s captain after two Tests.
464* - Shubman Gill
449 - Virat Kohli
429 - Sunil Gavaskar
367 - Steve Smith
India’s lead in the Test has already swelled to 394, at the time of writing this, and can easily turn into an all-time record chase for England.