Shubman Gill became the fourth Indian to score 700-plus runs in a Test series after the Indian captain entered eighties in the second innings against England in the fourth Test at Old Trafford on Sunday. The right-hander had already score a double hundred in the series, alongside two centuries and is well on course for a third ton.
Having started the fourth Test on 607 runs from six innings, Gill could manage only 12 runs in the first innings of the fourth Test. However, his real test came in the second innings when Gill walked out with his team reeling at two wickets down without a run on the board. With KL Rahul by his side, Gill revived India from humiliation.
The duo put on 188 runs for the third wicket before Rahul was trapped by Ben Stokes for a gritty knock of 90 runs. But in the process, Gill became the third Indian to achieve this rare feat. The only other Indians to score 700-plus runs in a Test series were Sunil Gavaskar (twice) and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Interestingly, this record was never been touched by run machine and former India captain Virat Kohli. The right-hander who retired from Tests before the England series, scored a maximum of 692 runs in a Test series against Australia during the 2014-15 Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT), which included four hundreds.
