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Shubman Gill got here out to bat at No. 4 for India on Day 1 of the 2nd Test against England at Edgbaston and remained unbeaten on 114 runs from 216 balls.
Shubman Gill becomes 4th Indian batter to attain hat-trick of Test centuries against England. (Picture Credit: AFP, X/@ICC, AP)
Shubman Gill scored a century for India on Day 1 of the second Test against England. Within the match going down at Edgbaston in Birmingham, Gill got here out to bat at No. 4 in the primary innings and remained unbeaten on 114 from 216 balls. The century on Wednesday (July 2) at Edgbaston was Gill’s third Test century in a row against the English team, and it helped him join Mohammad Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar, and Rahul Dravid in an elite list.
During their playing days, Azhar, Vengsarkar, and Dravid (twice) also scored three Test centuries in a row against the English team.
Azhar made his Test debut against England in December 1984 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata and scored 110 runs in the primary innings. He played his second and third Tests as well against the English team and scored 105 runs within the second innings of the second Test and 122 runs in the primary innings of the third Test. He’s the one Indian batter up to now to attain a century in the primary three Tests.
Vengsarkar scored 137 runs in the primary innings of the Kanpur Test played against England in January-February 1985 and crossed the 100-run mark in the subsequent two red-ball matches played against the English team in June 1986.
He remained unbeaten on 126 runs in the primary innings of the Lord’s Test and scored 102 not out within the second innings of the Leeds Test.
Dravid, who led India to a famous series win in England in 2007, twice during his 16-year-long Test profession scored a hat trick of centuries against the English team.
Through the India tour of England in 2002, Dravid scored 115 runs within the second innings of the Nottingham Test after which registered scores of 148 and 217 in the primary innings of the subsequent two red-ball matches played at Headingley in Leeds and The Oval.
In 2008, when England toured India for a two-match series, Dravid scored 136 runs in the primary innings of the second Test played at PCA Stadium in Mohali, after which in the primary two matches of India’s tour of England in 2011, he scored 103* and 117 in the primary innings of matches played at Lord’s and Nottingham.
Gill scored 110 runs for India in the primary innings of the fifth Test played against England at HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala last 12 months and amassed a complete of 147 runs in the primary Test played against the Ben Stokes-led team at Headingley from June 20 to 24, 2025.
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