Shubman Gill overtakes Rohit Sharma to become Indian No.1 in WTC history, equaling ‘captain’ Virat Kohli’s record
Indian national cricket team captain Shubman Gill notched another hundred and entered the record books on Saturday, October 11. Shubman Gill played his natural game and reached triple figures with a classy shot off Khary Pierre for 3 runs in the ongoing second and final Test against West Indies in Delhi.
With this knock, Gill entered the record books by becoming the first Indian to score 10 centuries in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC). In doing so, the stylish right-handed batter surpassed former Indian captain Rohit Sharma, who hit 9 hundreds in 69 innings.
Shubman Gill makes history with stylish century in Delhi Test
Gill reached this milestone in just his 71st innings. The calendar year 2025 was an exceptional one for the Punjab boy as Test captain, as it was his fifth hundred in just 12 innings. With this, Gill becomes the third fastest player to reach five Test hundreds as captain.
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England legend Alastair Cook (9 innings) and Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar (10 innings) reached five hundreds in fewer innings than Gill. However, Virat Kohli also scored five hundreds in a year as Indian captain in 2017 and 2018, but it took him 16 and 24 innings respectively.
Moreover, Gill now tops the all-time list of most Indian hundreds in WTC history, with 10 centuries. Other stars in the list are Rohit (9), Yashasvi Jaiswal (7), Rishabh Pant (6) and KL Rahul (6).
To be continued…
