IND vs NZ 3rd T20I: Gill becomes the fifth player to make this record, joins Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma

Image Source: PTI Shubman Gill scored a century against New Zealand

IND vs NZ 3rd T20I: Shubman Gill This year has been wonderful. The youngster has come into his own and is scoring runs for fun. Shubman Gill was a part of India’s Test team for a long time, but he was not able to get his rhythm right in the white ball game. Things have turned around for Shubman and he has been at the top of his game this year. The Gujarat Titans opener has scored a total of 567 runs in just six ODIs.

Shubman Gill’s record

With this brilliant century, Gill has now become the fifth Indian player to score a century in every format of the game. Gill has scored 4 ODI tons, 1 T20I ton and 1 Test ton. He has joined the elite list which includes (27 Test tons, 46 ODI tons and 1 T20I ton), Rohit Sharma (8 Test tons, 30 ODI tons and 4 T20I tons), Suresh Raina (1 Test Ton, 5 ODI Tons, and 1 T20 Ton) and KL Rahul (7 Test tons, 5 ODI tons and 2 T20 tons).

After proving his mettle in Test and ODI formats, Shubman Gill has now stamped his authority in the shortest format of the game, the T20I format. Shubman Gill surprised the Kiwi team in the third T20 being played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Gill scored 126* off 63 balls. Despite wickets falling at the other end, the youngster kept his composure and kept going. Shubman Gill scores his maiden century and he has gone beyond it Virat KohliRecord for the highest individual score for India in T20Is. Gill Will’s 126* surpassed Virat Kohli’s 122* against Afghanistan in last year’s Asia Cup.

India XI: Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Suryakumar Yadav, hardik pandya (C), Deepak Hooda, Washington Sundar, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep YadavUmran Malik, Arshdeep Singh

New Zealand XI: Finn Allen, Devon Conway (wk), Mark Chapman, Glenn Phillips, Daryl Mitchell, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (C), Ish SodhiLockie Ferguson, Ben Lister, Blair Tickner

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