🏏India tour of England 2025: 2nd Test England vs India - Page 49

Originally posted by: SalluTheUllu

What are they thinking? Still no declaration

Seems like they're playing for a draw rather than going for a win.

ICYMI: Akash Deep is padded up and looks ready to come out in the middle (should a wicket fall)...

1000 runs in the match for India for the first time ever.

Gill hit 11 sixes in this Test, a number only exceeded by Rohit Sharma (13 vs SA, Visakhapatnam, 2019) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (12 vs ENG, Rajkot, 2024) among Indians.

The umpires have called for drinks, but hang on! Skipper Gill pops up in the dressing room and calls his batters back. India have declared. England need 608 in 108 overs (provided we don't lose any overs). So India have batted for an hour after tea and added 123 runs while at it

Highest Test match aggregates for a batter

456 - Graham Gooch (ENG) vs IND, Lord’s, 1990

430 - Shubman Gill (IND) vs ENG, Edgbaston, 2025

426 - Mark Taylor (AUS) vs PAK, Peshawar, 1998

424 - Kumar Sangakkara (SL) vs BAN, Chattogram, 2014

400 - Brian Lara (WI) vs ENG, St John's, 2004

Originally posted by: Prizi

1000 runs in the match for India for the first time ever.

All that scoring, and still no win - what's the point?

1000-plus team aggregates in a Test

1121 - ENG vs WI, Kingston, 1930

1078 - PAK vs IND, Faisalabad, 2006

1028 - AUS vs ENG, The Oval, 1934

1014 - IND vs ENG, Edgbaston, 2025

1013 - AUS vs WI, Sydney, 1969

1011 - SA vs ENG, Durban, 1939

Only once has India set a higher fourth innings target in a Test - 616 vs New Zealand in Wellington in 2009. Only once has England been asked to chase a higher target in a home Test - 707 by Australia at the Oval in a timeless Test at the Oval in 1934.

Here comes the declaration...

England need 600 plus runs to win this test.