Indian captain Shubman Gill may not have brought the house down in the fifth and final Test of the ongoing series against England at the Oval, however, after a start he had on the liveliest pitch of the series, he would be disappointed with the way he got out and at the stage he got out. Gill scored 21 runs on Thursday on the opening day of the Oval Test before a moment of brain fade, which saw him come down the track and push for a non-existent run and Gus Atkinson caught him short of the crease.
Those 21 runs, however, helped Gill to leapfrog former India captain Virat Kohli on the World Test Championship (WTC) leaderboard, taking his tally to 2,636 runs. Gill is now the third-highest run-scorer for India in WTC begind Rishabh Pant and Rohit Sharma, who, like Kohli, is also retired from the longest format.
Most runs for India in the World Test Championship
2731 - Rishabh Pant (67 innings)
2716 - Rohit Sharma (69 innings)
2636 - Shubman Gill (68 innings)
2617 - Virat Kohli (79 innings)
2348 - Ravindra Jadeja (67 innings)
On a green top and with the way it was moving around, Gill had got himself in and was playing well before he decided to throw it away in a moment of madness. There were small partnerships of 20-30-odd runs each before Washington Sundar ground it out with Karun Nair to forge an unbeaten fifty-run partnership to close out the day.
India would be hoping to bat out at least the morning session on Day 2, if not more, to post a respectable first innings score. England will be a bowler short for the rest of the game after Chris Woakes injured his shoulder, and the visitors will be keen to get to somewhere around 300 before utilising the bowling assistance with the ball.
