🏏England tour of India 2024: 5th Test: 07 - 11 March 2024 - Day 3🏏 - Page 27

Congratulations to Rohit Sharma for his century.

When did Gill catch up with him?

Congratulations to Gill for his century.

Cheers..

Congratulations to Gill for completing the century in style.

Rohit and Gill

I've no words to describe my emotion right now

Seeing back to back centuries by these two is absolutely love

David: "Obviously not the whole problem, but do wonder how Crawley feels watching these two convert..." Jealous and a bit hungry, hopefully! It's not an insignificant shortcoming in the series context

Erlil: "Will the heroics of Kuldeep means that India will have an answer to England pitches as well with a good spin performance this time?" Quite feasibly. He bowls so much quicker than on his previous tours of England

END OF OVER 60

2 runs

IND: 264/1

CRR: 4.40

Shubman Gill

101 (142)

RG Sharma

102 (160)

TW Hartley

21-3-69-0

Shoaib Bashir

23-4-111-1

RS asking younger Gill to lead them back.

England players also applauding the Indian innings at lunch.
Great sportsman spirit being shown here.


congrats to RS and Gill for centuries 🍾🎉🍾🎉🍾

129 runs and 0 wickets. India so dominant, England scrambling. Now you do understand why they kept telling there were no wickets to spin in a recent domestic game on the same pitch. Tells you the difference of spin quality in both sides, tells you which side applied and batted batter. In pristine weather and batting conditions, Rohit and Gill were in no mood to let England into the game. They attacked, they gave respect and they carried on and on and on. Both batters getting their hundreds three balls apart. Gill played the aggressor early on, while Rohit looked solid at one end. England tried the short ball ploy but it didn't work to two players who do have a good pull shot. England had no choice but to set fields, hope bowlers bowl to those fields, build pressure and hope for mistakes from the batters. But Rohit and Gill didn't let pressure build.Ball not turning big or misbehaving as yet. Should be another great batting session.

Most hundreds by an India batter in international cricket

100 - Sachin Tendulkar

80 - Virat Kohli

48 - Rahul Dravid

48 - Rohit Sharma

38 - Virender Sehwag

38 - Sourav Ganguly

Most hundreds as an opener in international cricket

49 - David Warner

45 - Sachin Tendulkar

43 - Rohit Sharma

42 - Chris Gayle

41 - Sanath Jayasuriya

40 - Matthew Hayden