Shubman Gill: Shubman Gill became the second Indian player after Rahul Dravid to score a brilliant century in a Test match

Shubman Gill: Shubman Gill scored his fifth Test century by playing a brilliant innings on the third day of the first Test being played between Bangladesh and India at MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk) in Chennai. Gill scored an unbeaten 119 runs off 176 balls. After this, thanks to his and Rishabh Pant's century, Team India declared the second innings at 287/4 and gave Bangladesh a target of 515 runs.

After a disappointing performance in the first innings, where Gill was out on zero, he made a brilliant comeback in the second innings. He completed his century by taking a run off Mehdi Hasan Miraz's ball. At the time of writing this news, India has a lead of 367 runs. Bangladesh's second innings is going on. Bangladesh scored 148 runs in the second innings. It also lost 4 wickets.

Shubman Gill became the second player after Rahul

Gill has now become only the second Indian number 3 batsman after Rahul Dravid to score a Test century in 35 matches at the Chepauk Stadium. Gill hit 10 fours and 4 sixes in his innings and shared a crucial 167-run partnership with wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. Pant, who was returning to Test cricket after almost two years, also scored a century and equalled MS Dhoni's record for most Test centuries by an Indian keeper-batsman. Gill also became the first batsman to score a century in the second innings against Bangladesh after being dismissed for a duck in the first innings.

Skilful Gill rose to the occasion with a superb TON 👏👏

📽️ Relive his 5th Test Hundred 🔽#TeamIndia | #INDvBAN | @IDFCFIRSTBank

— BCCI (@BCCI) September 21, 2024

Ashwin's power was seen in the first innings

In the first innings, Indian player Ashwin played a brilliant innings and scored a century. Ashwin scored 113 runs. He hit 11 fours and 2 sixes. At the same time, Jadeja scored 86 runs in 124 balls in the first innings. He hit 10 fours and 2 sixes. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 56 runs in the first innings.

Thanks to these three, Team India scored 376 runs in the first innings. In reply to India's first innings, Bangladesh was all out for 287 runs. The Indian team declared its second innings at 287 runs.