Shubman Gill Test Century- In the Chennai Test against Bangladesh, Team India’s ‘Prince’ Shubman Gill scored his 5th Test century and played an unbeaten innings of 119 runs. On the basis of his innings, India has set a target of 515 runs for Bangladesh to win. Rishabh Pant played an important role along with Shubman Gill in taking Team India to this score, who played a brilliant innings of 109 runs. There was a time when India had lost three wickets at a score of 67, then Gill and Pant took charge of the team by sharing 167 runs for the fourth wicket. This is Shubman Gill’s back to back century in Test cricket. Earlier, he had scored a century in the last Test of the series against England. Gill hit 10 fours and 4 skyscraper sixes in his innings. With this, he also crossed the mark of 100 sixes in international cricket.
This is Shubman Gill’s third Test century in the year 2024. He has become the batsman to score the most centuries for India in the longest format of cricket this year. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma have scored 2-2 Test centuries this year.
Most Test centuries for India in 2024-
3 – Shubman Gill*
2 – Yashasvi Jaiswal
2 – Rohit Sharma
With this, Gill has overtaken Babar Azam in the list of batsmen who have scored the most centuries in international cricket since 2022. This is Gill’s 12th century since 2022, while Babar is in second place with 11 centuries.
Players with most centuries in Tests since 2022-
12 – Shubman Gill*
11 – Babar Azam
10 – Virat Kohli
9 – Travis Head
9 – Daryl Mitchell
This is Shubman Gill’s 5th century in the World Test Championship, he has become the second Indian to score the most centuries for India in WTC. Rohit Sharma is at the top of this list.
Most centuries for India in WTC-
9 – Rohit Sharma
5 – Shubman Gill*
4. Rishabh Pant*
4. Mayank Agarwal
4. Virat Kohli
3- Yashasvi Jaiswal
3. KL Rahul
3 – Ajinkya Rahane
3. Ravindra Jadeja
This is Gill’s third century in the current WTS cycle. Apart from him, Rohit and Yashasvi have also scored 3 centuries each in this cycle.
Shubman Gill has scored this century after getting out on zero in the first innings of the Chennai Test. With this, he has equaled Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar. Gill is the third player in the last 50 years to score a century in the second innings after getting out on zero in the first innings for India on home soil.
Zero in first innings and century in second innings in home Tests for India (in last 50 years)
0, 136 – Sachin vs Pakistan, Chennai (1999)
0, 104* – Kohli vs Sri Lanka, Kolkata (2017)
0, 119* – England vs Bangladesh, Chennai (2024)*