Shubman Gill entered an elite list on Wednesday as he came the eighth batter to score a double ton in ODIs. He scored 208 against New Zealand in Hyderabad. Gill stepped up his innings brilliantly with his first 50 coming off 52 balls. He went from 50 to 100 off just 35 deliveries and again from 100 to 150 off just 35 balls. But it was his final flurry that saw the acceleration really take off, with Gill going from 150 to 200 in just 23 balls, passing the double-century mark, thanks to three consecutive sixes.
Later, the team celebrated Gill’s feat. The BCCI posted a video of the same.
“I’d name it excellent. Especially contemplating that the following greatest rating wasn’t even 40, and the truth that he bought a double hundred was a knock at a really, very excessive stage,” said Kohli in the video.
“I feel he was completely in his component at this time and confirmed why so many individuals have been saying such nice issues about him for years. I want him all one of the best. Hope he builds on this. Today it was only a privilege to look at him bat.”
Gill, after the match, opened up on how he planned his innings. “With wickets falling, at occasions I wished to unleash and I’m glad I may do it on the finish. Sometimes when the bowler is on prime, it’s good to make them really feel below strain,” Gill said about his strategy.
“I wanted to keep away from dot balls and present some intent and hit onerous into the gaps which I used to be doing.
“I wasn’t really thinking of 200, but once I hit sixes in the 47th over, I did feel that I could. Before that, I was playing what was coming to me.” At 23 years and 132 days, Gill is now the youngest participant to attain a double-hundred in males’s ODIs, eclipsing his teammate Ishan Kishan, who set the document along with his 210 towards Bangladesh final month on the age of 24 years and 145 days.
“He (Kishan) is one of my best mates… It feels nice when you are wanting to do something and it is coming off on a regular basis,” Gill stated.
Gill took 19 innings to finish 1000 runs in ODIs, joint-second quickest to the feat alongside Imam-ul-Haq.
Fakhar Zaman is the quickest to the mark, having bought there in 18 innings.
With PTi inputs
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