Congratulating the rightful heir to his number four throne in Test cricket, former India skipper Virat Kohli on Saturday (July 5, 2025) hailed “star boy” Shubman Gill for "rewriting history" against England in Birmingham, saying that he deserves "all of this”. Gill brought up his second successive hundred and third in four innings in the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy while crossing the 500-run aggregate in the second game of a five-match series.
Gill, all of 25, hit 13 fours and eight sixes to score 161 off 162 balls, following up his first-innings’ 269 to become only the second Indian after the legendary Sunil Gavaskar to have scored a double ton as well as a century in a Test match. “Well played star boy. Rewriting history. Onwards and upwards from here. You deserve all of this,” wrote Kohli in an Instagram story.
The 36-year-old had retired from Test cricket a month before the England tour and is now residing in London.
Gill tallied 430 runs in the two innings of the second Test, which is also the second highest aggregate ever from a batter in a match after Graham Gooch’s 456 runs (333 and 123) against India at Lord’s in 1990.
India set a humongous target of 608 runs in the Edgbaston Test after Gill’s hundred and half-centuries from KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja, declaring their second innings at 427 for six in the final session on Day Four. England were three down for 72 at stumps, having lost openers Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley, and mainstay Joe Root inside 16 overs.
(With PTI inputs)
