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India Today
02-08-2025
- Sport
- India Today
Shubman Gill finishes England Test series with stunning 754 runs: Stat Pack
Shubman Gill stood out in India's 2025 Test series in England, where he scored an impressive 754 runs across five matches, averaging 75.40 with four centuries. Remarkably, every time he crossed 50, he went on to convert it into a hundred, highlighting his exceptional conversion dominance was clear at Edgbaston in the second Test, where he scored 269 and 161, racking up 430 runs in a single match to lead India to a commanding win. Gill also became the first Asian batter to score over 700 runs in a Test series in England — a testament to his consistency and vs India, 5th Test Day 3 Updates In the fourth Test at Old Trafford in Manchester, his unbeaten 78 under pressure helped secure a draw through a crucial 174-run partnership with KL didn't have the best of times in the fifth Test at The Oval in London. He scored 21 runs in the first innings before getting out for 11 in the the series, Gill achieved several milestones. Taking over from Rohit Sharma as India's Test captain, with the England series marking his debut in the role, the young leader showcased his remarkable talent and are some startling numbers around Shubman Gill in the Test series against England1 - Shubman Gill made the most runs by an Indian captain in a Test series, going past Sunil Gavaskar's 732 in 1978. Overall, Gill is only second behind Don Bradman's 810 back in the 1936-37 Ashes in Australia.2 - Shubman Gill scored the second-most runs amongst Indian batters in a single Test series. Sunil Gavaskar's 774 in the 1971 tour of the West Indies remains the highest.3 - Shubman Gill made the third-most runs by a No.4 batter in a Test series. Steve Smith's 774 in the Ashes 2019 remains the highest, followed by Denis Compton's 753 in South Africa's 1947 tour of England.2- Shubman Gill is joint-second in the list of most hundreds in a bilateral Test series. Clyde Walcott is the only batter with five hundreds in a Test series.1 - Shubman Gill has the joint-most hundreds scored by captains in a single bilateral Test series (4). Don Bradman (1947-48 Ashes) and Sunil Gavaskar (1978-79 home series against West Indies) also have four centuries.1 - Shubman Gill set the record for most runs by an Indian batter in a Test match during the Edgbaston Test (430). He went past Sunil Gavaskar's 344 (124 and 220) against the West Indies back in 1971 in Port of Spain.1 - After his 269 and 161-run knocks at Edgbaston, Shubman Gill became the first Indian batter with a double hundred and a 150-run knock in the same match. Sunil Gavaskar scored a double century and a century back in 1971 in Port of - In the Edgbaston Test itself, Gill set the record for the highest score by an Indian captain in Test cricket. He went past Virat Kohli's 254 not out in the Pune Test against South Africa in 219.1 - In the same match, Gill set the record for the highest score by an Indian batter in Tests in England. He went past Sunil Gavaskar's 221 back in 1979 at the Kennington Oval in London.1 - Shubman Gill racked up the highest score by an Asian captain in SENA countries (269). He went past Tillakaratne Dilshan's 193 against England at Lord's in 2011.5 - Shubman Gill hammered the fifth-highest score at Edgbaston. Alastair Cook's 294 against India in 2011 tops the list, followed by Peter May's 285 not out against West Indies in 1957, Graeme Smith's 277 against England in 2003 and Zaheer Abbas' 274 against England in 1971.- EndsMust Watch
The Guardian
11-04-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Chess: Magnus Carlsen in form at Paris Freestyle after Hans Niemann drops out
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, was an early front runner in the $375,000 second leg of the Freestyle Grand Slam in Paris. The 34 year-old tied for first with Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 12-player round robin which decided Thursday's quarter-finalists, and which proved a disaster for India. Three of their four contenders were eliminated, headed by the 18-year-old world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, who also failed in the first Grand Slam leg in Germany. Friday's semi-final pairings are Carlsen (Norway) v Fabiano Caruana (US) and Hikaru Nakamura (US) v Vincent Keymer (Germany). Gukesh could have qualified by beating Nepomniachtchi in the final round, but instead was brutally defeated in only 21 moves. The basic rule for Freestyle is that the positions of the back row pieces are randomised, and this makes the opening, which in mainstream chess usually means remembering and playing conventional book moves, into a minefield for the unwary. Gukesh's fatal error came as early as move five, when his 5…N8d7? (correct is 5…h5! to dislodge White's g3 knight) allowed 6 cxd5 exd5 7 Nf5! after which the white queen could jump from its handy starting square c1 to g5, with already a near-decisive attack on Gukesh's king. White followed up by 13 b4! and 15 e4! to open more lines for his pieces, and although the Russian missed the fastest win 16 Qh3! gxf4 17 Qxh6+, Black's position still collapsed after 21 Bxf6+. Earlier, France's top player, Alireza Firouzja, and the controversial US grandmaster Hans Niemann both withdrew at short notice. In Firouzja's case, it was due to obscure contractual issues which the organiser, Jan Henric Buettner, tried in vain to resolve over several days. Niemann, who received a wildcard entry, seemed all set to compete. He enlisted the former world champion Vladimir Kramnik as his aide and planned to stream all his games. Then he withdrew late, and at the time of writing had provided no explanation beyond 'personal reasons'. The Freestyle Grand Slam continues with events in New York in July, Delhi in September and Cape Town in December. Ju Wenjun has taken a 4-2 lead against her Women's World Championship challenger, Tan Zhongyi, in their $500,000 12-game title match in Shanghai. Ju lost game two, but recovered strongly to win games three, five and six. The second half of the match will be played in Chongqing, where game seven starts on Sunday. England's over-50s and over-65s are dominating the European Senior Team Championships in Swidnica, Poland. After six of the nine rounds England 1 had won every match in both competitions without loss of a game. However, there are only 20 participating teams, and it seems that the event came too soon after the recent World 50+ and 65+ in Prague, where England won 65+ gold and entries were at a record high. Former British champion Jonathan Mestel won a 16-move miniature with a queen sacrifice and a mate by a knight. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion Reykjavik's annual open had been planned as a celebration of Fridrik Ólafsson's 90th birthday, but it has sadly turned into a memorial tournament as the former Fide president and secretary to the Icelandic parliament died on 4 April. Ólafsson, who defeated several world champions in a long career, was the last survivor of the 1959 Candidates. One of his best wins was against Bobby Fischer in the 1958 interzonal. Britain's Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) staged its penultimate weekend on 5-6 April, and its results confirmed that the title race is between Manx Liberty and Wood Green, who meet in next month's final round. Isle of Man have the edge, as they have won all eight matches with 16 match points and 49.5 game points, against 14(44) for their rivals. BBC Two's Chess Masters: The Endgame reached its fifth episode (of eight) this week. Viewing numbers have stabilised at 606,000, 5% of the total audience. Reactions remain split, as experts dislike it while social players, novices and children enjoy the show. In next Monday's episode (BBC Two, 8pm) the second group of contestants try their skills on the Carlsen memory test. 3967: 1…Rxf3+! 2 Bxf3 Bc8! and White resigned. If 3 Bg2 Bh3! 4 Bxh3 Qh1 mate.
