“You deserve all of this, well played star boy” - Virat Kohli praises Shubman Gill for his Edgbaston heroics

Former Indian skipper Virat Kohli took to his Instagram handle to heap praises on the Indian Test captain Shubman Gill, who slammed a double century and a century in the ongoing Birmingham Test against England.

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While Gill smacked 269 runs in the first innings, he followed it up with yet another daddy century (161) in the second innings as Team India set a daunting 608-run target for England in the fourth innings with one more day left in the game.

Kohli, who announced his retirement from the longest format of the game ahead of the England tour in May 2025, wrote on his Instagram story, “Well played star boy. Rewriting history. Onwards and upwards from here. You deserve all of this.”

Virat Kohli’s story image: https://prnt.sc/jb8FC_E7iopz 

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Multiple records broken by Team India & Shubman Gill

After declaring at 427/6 in 83 overs in the second innings, Team India reached a historic milestone by scoring a total of 1000 runs in a single Test for the first time in the team’s cricketing history, surpassing their best of 916 set against Australia at the SCG in Sydney in 2004. Notably, India scored 587 runs in 151 overs in the first innings of the Birmingham Test.

Furthermore, Gill also scored the second-highest individual aggregate in a single Test with a tally of 430 runs, falling behind England’s Graham Gooch, who accumulated 456 runs against India at Lord’s in 1990.

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Additionally, Gill also emerged as the second batter in Test cricket history to score over 150 runs in both innings of a Test, after Australia’s Allan Border, who scored 150 and 153* against Pakistan in Lahore in 1980.

Moreover, Gill also joined a few elite lists after his 161-run knock on Day 4 of the Birmingham Test, emerging as the third Indian captain to score centuries in both innings of a Test and the ninth player in Test cricket history to score a double ton and a ton in the same game.

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