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LONDON: India Test captain Shubman Gill carved his name into cricketing history on Thursday by breaking a record held by West Indies great Sir Gary Sobers, which had stood unchallenged for nearly six decades.
On Day 1 of the fifth and final Test against England at The Oval, Gill went past Gary Sobers’ record for most runs by an overseas captain in a Test series held in SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia).
Sobers had scored 722 runs in the 1966 series in England. Gill needed just one run to overtake that mark and did so with a couple off the sixth ball he faced.
He went on to make 21 runs in the first innings, pushing his series tally to 743 runs.
The 25-year-old also eclipsed another legendary Indian name, Sunil Gavaskar, whose 732 runs in the 1978-79 home series against the West Indies were the most by an Indian captain in a single Test series.
Shubman Gill now sits third on the all-time list for most runs by a captain in a Test series.
Only Don Bradman (810) and Graham Gooch (752) stand ahead of him. With a second innings still to come, Gill has a chance to overtake both and rewrite another page in the record books.
He is also inching closer to Gavaskar’s overall Indian record of 774 runs in a single Test series, a milestone set during the iconic 1971 tour of the West Indies.
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