Shubman Gill Registers 2nd Test Century, Virat Kohli’s Reaction Is Pure Gold | Cricket News

Shubman Gill continued his second hundred within the longest format of the sport on Day 3 of the 4th Test in opposition to Australia. It was within the third Test at Indore that Gill earned the nod to open alongside Rohit Sharma, with the workforce administration deciding to drop KL Rahul, owing to his poor type. Gill did not handle to benefit from his outing within the third Test however stepped up and delivered in Ahmedabad. The younger opening batter scored solely his second century for India in red-ball cricket, orchestrating an over 100-run partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara for the third wicket.

Gill had registered his first Test ton within the Bangladesh collection however sadly misplaced his place to KL Rahul within the following matches. However, after Rahul’s failure within the first couple of matches in opposition to Australia, Gill marked his return in Indore and actually made it depend in Ahmedabad.

As Gill reached the triple-digit rating, the whole Indian camp stood up and applauded him. However, one face that was distinctly seen was Virat Kohli’s. The former India skipper had a giant smile on his face as he clapped for Gill upon reaching the milestone.

India, nonetheless, had been delivered a giant blow proper after Gill scored his century as Cheteshwar Pujara was dismissed LBW by Todd Murphy. At Tea, India stood at 188/2 63 overs, with Gill and Kohli within the center.

The hosts nonetheless path the Steve Smith-led facet by 292 runs.

Gill (103 batting) and Cheteshwar Pujara (42) stitched a 113-run partnership, earlier than the latter was trapped leg-before by spinner Todd Murphy. Australia had made 480 of their first innings.

Rohit Sharma was earlier dismissed for 35 off the final ball of the twenty first over, ending a 74-run partnership between Gill and the India captain.

With PTI inputs

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