Shubman Gill of all formats
Updated On: 03 February, 2023 09:39 AM IST | New Delhi | AFP
Young opener’s maiden T20I century has people comparing him to run machine Virat Kohli
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Shubman Gill celebrates his maiden ODI, Test and T20I tons v Zimbabwe in Harare (left), Bangladesh in Chattogram and NZ in Ahmedabad (right) respectively. Pics/Getty Images
Shubman Gill’s prowess as an opener was never in doubt, but his first Twenty20I ton has got people talking about him as the next Virat Kohli, an all-format run machine for India.
Series-clinching knock
Gill scored 126 in just 63 balls in a crushing 168-run series-clinching win over a hapless New Zealand on Wednesday. It was just his sixth T20I appearance. Despite being gifted with all the shots, Gill, 23, has not yet cemented a place for India in all formats, playing no part in last year’s T20 World Cup. Gill hit a match-winning Test ton in Bangladesh in December and a maiden ODI double-hundred in January. That knock earned him the moniker of Smoothman Gill—for his free-flowing shot-making—from batting great Sunil Gavaskar.
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