Shubman Gill’s epic effort at Edgbaston: A statistical review

Shubman Gill’s twin tons at Edgbaston: A deep dive into the records broken in ENG vs IND 2nd Test, 2025.

Captaincy can put enormous pressure on any young player, especially when the individual replaces a global star. However, that wasn’t the case with Shubman Gill, who has taken red-ball leadership like a duck to the water. In the first innings of the opening Headingley Test, he notched up a fine 147-run knock.

With India behind in the series by a 1-0 margin coming to the second Edgbaston Test, he turned up with more special knocks. His 269 set the platform for the tourists in the first innings and was the centre of the mammoth score of 587. When they needed to free their arms in the second innings, Gill smashed 161 runs in 162 balls, thanks to 13 boundaries and eight sixes.

Shubman Gill’s 430 Runs across two innings at Edgbaston: A statistical review

1. Gill becomes the second India captain to bring a Test century at Edgbaston. Virat Kohli was the first one to achieve the feat when he scored 149 in 2018.
   
2. Gill’s 269 in the first innings of the Edgbaston fixture is his highest score in the longest format. 
   
3. Gill has now recorded the highest individual Test score (269) for an India captain in England. He overtook Mohammed Azharuddin who scored 179 at Old Trafford in 1990. 
   
4. Gill becomes the third double centurion for India in Tests in England, only behind Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar. 
   
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5. Gill’s 269 is the highest individual score for an India batter in Tests in England. The previous highest was 221 scored by Sunil Gavaskar at the Oval in 1979. 
   
6. Shubman Gill’s 269 is the highest individual Test score for an India captain. 
   
7. Shubman Gill now has the highest aggregate of runs (430) in a Test for India. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar’s tally of 344 (122 & 220). The former India captain got the runs against the West Indies at Port of Spain in 1971. 
   
8. Gill is the second India batter after Sunil Gavaskar to get a double century and a century in a Test match. 
   
9. Gill collected 430 runs in the Edgbaston Test. That’s the second-most runs recorded by an individual player in a Test match. England’s Graham Gooch has the highest tally of 456 (333 & 123) against India at Lord’s in 1990. 
   
10. Gill is the second batter to make two 150-plus scores in a Test match. Australia’s Allan Border was the first batter to do so against Pakistan in Lahore in 1980.
    
11. Gill is the third India captain to score hundreds in both innings of a Test. Gavaskar scored 107 and an unbeaten 182 against the West Indies at Eden Gardens in 1978. Virat Kohli also recorded 115 and 141 against Australia in 2014.
    
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12. Gill has accumulated 585 runs in the first two Tests of the England trip. This is the second-highest aggregate in the first two games of a series. Grame Smith’s 621 in England in 2003 is the only batter in front of him in this category. 
    
13. Shubman Gill now has the joint second-most Test centuries (3) in England as captain. Only Don Bradman and Grame Smith are in front of him with five centuries.
    
14. Gill is now the second India captain to hit a double century in away Tests. Virat Kohli was the first batter to do so when he scored 200 against the West Indies in Antigua in 2016.
    
15. Gill and Rishabh Pant added 110 runs for the fourth wicket at a run rate of 6.40. This is India’s fastest century stand for this wicket in Tests. 
    
16. Gill and Ravindra Jadeja brought up the fifth 100+ partnership for the sixth wicket for India against England in England in Tests. 
    
17. Gill and Jadeja produced the second-highest partnership (203) for any wicket for India against England at Edgbaston. Jadeja and Pant’s 222-run stand for the sixth wicket is at the top that they achieved in 2022. 
    
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— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) July 5, 2025

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