India declared their second innings at 427/6, building on a 180-run first innings lead. Gill, who had already struck a monumental 269 in the first innings, followed it up with a sensational 161 off just 162 deliveries, laced with 13 fours and 8 sixes.
Rishabh Pant played an entertaining hand with a rapid 65 off 58 balls, featuring eight boundaries and three sixes. His 110-run stand with Gill for the fourth wicket helped India accelerate. Jadeja, unbeaten on 69 off 118 balls (5 fours, 1 six), stitched a 175-run partnership for the fifth wicket with the Indian captain to push the total further beyond England’s reach.
India began the fourth day at 64/1 but lost KL Rahul (55) and Karun Nair (26) in the first session.
Gill’s incredible outing with scores of 269 and 161 saw him amass 430 runs in the match, the second-highest aggregate by a batter in Test history, only behind Graham Gooch’s 456 (333 & 123) against India at Lord’s in 1990.
The 24-year-old also became the second player to score 150-plus in both innings of a Test, after Allan Border (150* & 153 vs Pakistan, 1980), and the first-ever to register a 250-plus and a 150-plus in a single Test.
He joined an elite list of players to score a double century and a century in the same Test, becoming only the second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar, who hit 124 and 220 against West Indies in 1971 at Port of Spain. The list also includes legends like Doug Walters, Lawrence Rowe, Greg Chappell, Gooch, Brian Lara, Kumar Sangakkara, and Marnus Labuschagne.
Gill’s 430-run match haul is also the highest by an Indian captain in a Test, surpassing Virat Kohli’s 293 (243 & 50) against Sri Lanka in Delhi, 2017.
Notably, Gill is just the second Asian batter to score over 350 runs in a Test outside the subcontinent, following Hanif Mohammad’s 354 (17 & 337) against West Indies in Bridgetown in 1958.
He’s also the third Asian to notch 300+ runs in a Test held in SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia) after Rahul Dravid (305 in Adelaide, 2003) and Sachin Tendulkar (301 in Sydney, 2004).
Shubman Gill now becomes only the third Indian captain to score centuries in both innings of a Test, alongside Gavaskar (vs WI, Kolkata 1978) and Kohli (vs SL, 2017), and the second player after Kohli to register three hundreds in his first two Tests as captain.
