The Test captain stated that he stuck to the game's basics like he used to do in his childhood. With this knock, the right-hander has surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's score of 221 runs at The Oval in 1979 to post the highest individual score by an Indian batter on English soil
Shubman Gill (Pic: X/@ICC)
In the first innings of the second Test match against England, Team India skipper Shubman Gill played a knock of 269 runs off 387 deliveries, which included 30 boundaries and three maximums.
Speaking about his stunning double-century, Gill said, "I think at the end of the IPL and before this series, I worked a lot on this. I mainly worked on my initial movement and my setup. Before this, I felt my batting was going well. I was scoring 30-35-40 runs consistently in Test matches. But at some point, I was missing that peak concentration time. A lot of people say that when you focus too much, you sometimes miss your peak time".
The knock also helped him become the first Indian and Asian captain to score a double century in a Test match in England. Riding on his knock, Team India posted a total of 587 runs in 151 overs.
Further, he also stated that he sticked to his game's basics like he used to do in his childhood.
"So, in this series, I tried to go back to my basics. I tried to bat like I used to in my childhood. I didn't think about having reached 35-40 runs or about playing long innings. I just wanted to enjoy my batting," added the 25-year-old.
With this knock of 269-run knock, the right-hander has surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's score of 221 runs at The Oval in 1979 to post the highest individual score by an Indian batter on English soil.
Gill's return to form comes after a lukewarm Test tour of Australia earlier this year, where he managed a highest score of just 31 across three Tests.
He also said that he was lost in trying to focus too much on accumulating runs.
"Sometimes, when you aren't scoring runs fluently, you stop enjoying your batting. You focus too much on the need to score runs. I felt I had lost that in my batting. I was so focused that I wasn't enjoying my batting as much."
Gill's knock is also the highest by an Indian captain in Tests, surpassing Virat Kohli's unbeaten 254 against South Africa in Pune in 2019.
(With PTI Inputs)
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