KL Rahul ends nine-year wait for home Test ton vs West Indies; Shubman Gill joins Sunil Gavaskar in elite club

India opener KL Rahul made an amazing century in the first Test against West Indies, reaching the milestone on day two of the game on October 3, 2025. This match is being played at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad. 

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West Indies captain Roston Chase won the toss and decided to bat first. Johann Layne and Khary Pierre made their Test debuts for the West Indies, while India fielded three spinners and two pacers, with Nitish Kumar Reddy as company.

Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah were all over the West Indies batting, as openers Tagenarine Chanderpaul (0) and John Campbell (8) were out early. The West Indies batting offered minimal opposition, with skipper Chase scoring 24 and Shai Hope scoring 26 runs. Justin Greaves, an all-rounder, stood tall and scored 32 runs, including four fours. 

West Indies were knocked out for 162 runs, with Mohammed Siraj claiming 4/40 and Jasprit Bumrah 3/42, while Kuldeep Yadav claimed two wickets.

Then, Yashasvi Jaiswal (36) added 68 runs for the first wicket for India in first innings with KL Rahul. Then Sai Sudharsan was dismissed for 7 runs and Shubman Gill came out to bat at no.4. India ended day one on 121/2. 

India resumed its India resumed the second day of the first Test on 121/2, with Rahul (53*) and Shubman Gill (18*) at the crease. Shubman Gill scored 50 in his debut Test innings as captain in India, but was later dismissed for 50.

KL Rahul makes first Test ton in India after 9 years, 11th overall

KL Rahul continued to play some incredible strokes, reaching his century in 190 balls. This was his 11th Test century, and only his second in India, following his 199 against England in Chennai in 2016.

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Ravichandran Ashwin's wait of 36 innings was the longest, and this is the fourth-longest an Indian has had to wait between two hundreds at home. The longest interval between two hundreds at home for an Indian hitter is 3211 days, which separated KL Rahul's first and second Test hundreds.

With 649 runs in seven Test matches at an average of 54.08, three hundreds, two fifties, and a highest score of 137, this year officially records KL Rahul's best score. This year, he also had his finest Test series performance against England, scoring 532 runs at an average of 53.20 per 10 innings, including two hundreds and two fifties.

With his historic half-century, captain Shubman Gill became the second Indian captain to reach fifty or more in their first innings at home as captain, following Sunil Gavaskar (205 against WI at Wankhede in 1978).

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