ND vs AFG: Shubman Gill created history: became the 7th Indian captain to score 150+ runs in ODI

Young opener Shubman Gill has created havoc with his bat in the second ODI against Afghanistan. Scoring his first century as captain, he played a historic innings of 154 runs. With this brilliant performance, Gill has now joined the elite list (Top-7) of the selected legends who have scored more than 150 runs as captain for India in ODI cricket. This inning of his was not only important from the match point of view, but has also become a golden chapter in his captaincy career.

Elite club of ‘biggest innings’ of captains in ODI

In the history of Indian cricket, reaching the mark of 150 runs in the ODI format as a captain is considered very difficult, but Gill did it very well. After this achievement, the list of captains who have played the biggest innings in ODI for India is as follows:

• Virender Sehwag: 219 runs (vs West Indies, 2011)

• Rohit Sharma: 208 runs (vs Sri Lanka, 2017)

• Sachin Tendulkar: 186 runs (vs New Zealand, 1999)

• Kapil Dev: 175 runs (vs Zimbabwe, 1983)

• Virat Kohli: 160 runs (vs. South Africa, 2018)

• Virat Kohli: 157 runs (vs West Indies, 2018)

• Shubhman Gill: 154 runs (vs Afghanistan, 2026)

Apart from this, Mohammad Azharuddin also played an unbeaten inning of 153 runs against Zimbabwe in 1998, which is very close to this list.

Partnership laid a huge foundation

In this match against Afghanistan, the 224-run partnership between Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan took India towards a huge target. At one time it seemed that Team India would easily score a mountain of 450 runs, but in the last 10 overs, Afghan spinners Nangelia Kharote (4 wickets) and Rashid Khan (3 wickets) made a brilliant comeback and restricted India to 402 runs. This century of Gill is his 9th century of ODI career, which proves his consistency and ability to improve even under the pressure of captaincy.

Gill’s journey and future hopes

For Shubman Gill, this innings is one of the most important innings of his career so far. By converting the responsibility given to him as captain into a big score in the very first century, he has indicated that he is fully prepared for future captaincy. However, this brilliant inning of Gill ended the drought of big scores under the captaincy of India. Cricket lovers are now hoping that Gill will maintain his momentum and continue to perform such historic feats for India in the upcoming big tournaments.