Records tumble as Gill smashes 269 at Edgbaston

A look at all the key numbers from Shubman Gill's imperious 269 in the ongoing second Test between England and India at Edgbaston:

269 - Gill now has the highest score by an India Test captain, surpassing Virat Kohli's 254* in Pune in 2019. Overall, his 269 is the seventh highest score for India in the format in a list headed by Virrender Sehwag's 319 against South Africa in Chennai in 2008.

Highest scores as India Test captain

2 - Gill became just the second Indian captain to register a Test double hundred away from home, after Virat Kohli, who got exactly 200 against West Indies at North Sound in 2016. Overall, he is the fifth Indian captain to get to the milestone in Tests, after Kohli (7 times), MAK Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni (once each).

3 - Gill got to his double hundred in just his third innings as captain, the joint-quickest for India, alongside Sunil Gavaskar (205 vs WI, Wankhede, 1978).

Aged 25 years 298 days, Gill became the second youngest Indian captain to hit a Test double-hundred after MAK Pataudi, who did that aged 23 years 39 days against the same opponent in Delhi, in 1964. Gill, in fact, is only the second Test captain with a 250-plus score in Tests before turning 27, after Graeme Smith, who scored 277 and 259 in back-to-back Tests at Edgbaston and Lord's respectively in 2003, the first coming at 22y, 175d.

Youngest to score a Test double hundred as India captain

1 - Gill now has the highest score by an Asian Test captain outside of the subcontinent, surpassing Marvan Atapattu's 249 against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo in 2004. Hashmatullah Shahidi (246 in Bulawayo in 2024) and Kohli (200 at Kingston in 2016) are the other double centurions in this list. The previous best for an Asian skipper in a SENA country was 193 by Tillakaratne Dilshan at Lord's in 2011.

3- Gill became the third Indian to register a Test double hundred in England, after Gavaskar (221) and Rahul Dravid (217) did that at The Oval in 1979 and 2002 respectively. The previous highest score for an Indian captain in the country was Mohammad Azharuddin's 179 at Old Trafford in 1990. Overall, only Graham Gooch (333, Lord's 1990), Karun Nair (303*, Chennai, 2016) and Alastair Cook (294, Edgbaston 2011) have higher scores in Tests between these two sides.

5- Gill is the fifth cricketer to register a double hundred in both Tests and ODIs, after Tendulkar, Sehwag, Rohit Sharma and Chris Gayle.

4 - Gill's 269 was the fourth 250-plus score by a visiting captain in Tests in England, after Bob Simpson's 311 at Old Trafford in 1964 and Graeme Smith's 277 and 259 at Edgbaston and Lord's in 2003.

95.2%- Gill's control percentage during his 387-ball stay. Of the 152 Test double hundreds scored since the start of the 2006 English summer, that's the fifth best overall, and the highest among the 61 scored away from home. It is followed by 95% by AB de Villiers during his 217 in Ahmedabad in 2008.

4- Earlier, on Day 1, Gill had become the fourth Indian to score hundreds in his first two Tests as captain, after Kohli, Vijay Hazare and Gavaskar.

4 - Having scored 110 in India's innings win in Dharamsala last year and 147 in the ongoing series opener at Headingley, Gill also joined Azharuddin (1984-1985), Dilip Vengsarkar (1985-1986), Dravid (2002 and 2008-2011) for hundreds in three consecutive Tests for India against England. He also became the third India captain with hundreds in back-to-back Tests against England, after Hazare (Delhi and Brabourne in 1951-52) and Azharuddin (Lord's and Old Trafford in 1990).

India pile on the runs

587 - India registered their fourth-highest innings total in Tests in England, after 664 (The Oval, 2007), 628/8d (Headingley, 2002) and 606/9d (The Oval, 1990). It was the first instance of a visiting team going past 500 in a Test at Edgbaston since South Africa's 594/5d in 2003.

376 runs added by India after the fall of the fifth wicket is their highest ever in a Test innings, surpassing 370 against West Indies in Kolkata, led by Rohit Sharma's 177 on debut.

Most runs added after the fall of fifth wicket in a Test innings (India)

203 runs added by Gill and Ravindra Jadeja made it India's third highest partnership for the sixth wicket or lower in Tests in England, after 222 between Rishabh Pant and Jadeja at the same venue in 2022. It is followed by the 204-run stand between Pant and KL Rahul at The Oval in 2018. Overall, it was just the second 200-plus stand for the sixth wicket or lower at Edgbaston, with Jadeja involved in both.

2 - Gill followed the partnership with Jadeja with another 144-run stand with Sundar. It was just the second time that a visiting team has had two century stands for sixth wicket or lower in a Test innings in England, after West Indies did that at Trent Bridge in 1957. It was also the second such instance for India in an away Test after Kingston 1971.