England vs India: Shubman Gill shows character with ‘masterful’ record score of 269 as pressure shifts to Ben Stokes | Cricket News

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Before his second match in one of the most pressed in cricket, Shubman Gill had to feel the heat.

The captain at the start of India supervised a confusing defeat in Headingley during a first test where tourists were – at different stages of their two heats – 430-3 and 333-4; The latter’s collapse launched by the dismissal of Gill.

Then, in a decision that has only confused and simultaneously exercised even more requests with the bat, Gill and the Sélectors of India chose to rest the Bowler Jasprit Bumrah player for Edgbaston, despite the gap of eight days between the tests.

The versatile, but few specialists, were selected, and the opposing captain Ben Stokes sought to capitalize by putting India quickly to beat Wednesday morning.

But the pressure – and at 95-2 then 211-5, there was great pressure – sometimes highlighted the best of the best.

Gill, only 25 years old, proved that he was firmly in this category for two powerfully impressive days in Birmingham, marking a better first class score in a career of 269, which is also the highest than the striker of India has ever succeeded in England.

It was a blow full of character.

Gill combined patience with pure power photos, also comfortable driving through the covers he faced with a plethora of short deliveries – always seeming to present a perfect technique of the image.

A large part of his experience came in white ball cricket – both as captain and striker – but here he showed the concentration and determination of steel required to be a master in English, not often seen in a first captain who was not on average 27 abroad with regard to this tour.

“It was a masterful performance of Gill – a completely field -free round,” said Michael Atherton of Sky Sports During his stay at The Crease, which included 30 four and three.

“He does not seem to give England a sniff at any time and there was an air of inevitability on this subject.

“He is a magnificent driver through the offside and has such a fluid game.”

Flat terrain helped, but it was also a field that Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley failed to manage late Thursday, while Gill – and in particular Ravira Jadeja during their crucial partnership of more than 200 years – seemed largely unwavering.

“It was the most compact rounds that Gill played throughout his career in Test Cricket,” Gushed Sky Sports Cricket, Karthik, Gill’s former teammate. “He was checked every second at the fold.

“It shows you that he is a man sure of his technique and he knows that there are no demons in the field, but he also controlled his mind.”

Gill’s only faux pas of Gill was to hang Josh Tongue to Pope on his 387th Ball, this error only occurring when you try to set foot with India test record of all time by Virender Sehwag – 313 – in sight.

Make history with its highest test – its previous record was 147 of the first test, showing the shape in which it is – and a record of India in England, should be comfort.

It was normal that Gill played again in the evening, taking a sumptuous taking of an edge of the Duckett to disembark the first counter in India.

“He cannot be mistaken, Shubman Gill,” said Shastri Shastri Deli Shastri Cricket; A quote that could have been said realistically at any stage of the first six sessions of this test.

The pressure is now on the counterparts of Gill Stokes, England ending the day on 77-3, and 510 run behind India.

The key, on the other hand, is to ban the memories of Headingley and to transform these impressive statistics, into a very necessary victory.

Look at the third day of the second test between England and India. Sky Sports Cricket And Main Sky Sports event From 10:15 am on Friday (11 a.m. from the first ball) or stream without contract.