🏏India tour of England 2025: 2nd Test England vs India - Page 45

India needs to declare soon...to give them a chance to bat.

Chan: "Can we expect fireworks atleast after gill's century?" With four minutes until tea, I suspect we'll wait a while yet...

Prasanth George: "Not sure what the hurry in declaring is? Looks like a good pitch to bat on, if Eng takes 100 runs today with 1-2 wickets lost and 300 to get tomorrow, everyone will question why India declared so early. " Also true

India captains with hundreds in both innings of a Test

Sunil Gavaskar vs WI, Kolkata, 1978

Virat Kohli vs AUS, Adelaide, 2014

Shubman Gill vs ENG, Edgbaston, 2025

Gill is the second player to record three hundreds in his first two Tests as captain after Virat Kohli. Seven others got two each: Vijay Hazare, Jackie McGlew, Greg Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar, Alastair Cook, Steven Smith and Dhananjaya de Silva.

end of over 67

2 runs

IND: 304/4

CRR: 4.53

Shubman Gill

100 (130)

RA Jadeja

25 (62)

Shoaib Bashir

18-1-74-1

JE Root

3-0-13-0

Big Max: "Bat 30-40 minutes after tea. Go the tonk and then have 75-minutes at the Poms. " Fair

Day 4: Tea Break - India lead by 484 runs

IND 2nd inn

304-4(68)

Originally posted by: Prizi

Gill is the third Asian batter to aggregate 300-plus in a Test match in a SENA country after Rahul Dravid (305) and Sachin Tendulkar (301) did that in Adelaide and Sydney respectively in 2003/04.

Priyanka ben,

And one more : Very very special Laxman when Aus follow on india >> he scored 59 & 281 = 340. Not in SENA country but that iconic and Unique test we won after Follow-on

India in a commanding position at tea. They lead by 484 and the Indian captain is being congratulated by Stokes and Bashir as he walks off. Still very good batting conditions and it was inevitable that Gill would go big again. And duly he has converted his rich form into a hundred. A double-ton and a hundred in the same Test is something few batters achieve and Gill has done it on an away tour of England. India though would be disappointed with the way how Jadeja has played. 25 off 68 is not what they need with them trying to force a win to try and level the series

Akash: "Completely Agree with Prashant that there shouldn't be any hurry to declare. India should bowl only 20 overs today and rest tomorrow and see if they have it in them to take all wickets. "