Shubman Gill Fastest Indian To Score Six ODI Tons: The young opening batsman of the Indian team, Shubman Gill, continues to perform brilliantly with the bat in the year 2023. After scoring the most runs in Asia Cup 2023, Gill’s bat was also seen speaking in the first 2 matches of the ODI series against Australia. While Gill had played an inning of 74 runs in the first ODI, in the second match played in Indore, a brilliant century of 104 runs was seen from his bat. This was Gill’s sixth century in his ODI career.
Shubman Gill has now become the player from India to score 6 centuries in the least number of innings in ODIs. Gill achieved this milestone in his 35th ODI innings. Earlier this record was in the name of Shikhar Dhawan, who had completed 6 centuries in 46 ODI innings. Apart from this, KL Rahul managed to score 53 while Virat Kohli managed to score 6 ODI centuries in 61 innings.
year 2023 Shubman Gill has so far scored 1230 runs in 20 innings at an average of 72.35. During this period, 5 century and 5 half-century innings have been seen from his bat. Gill has also returned to the pavilion unbeaten thrice. Gill had also managed to score his first double century in ODIs earlier this year.
Gill can break Sachin’s record of most runs in a year
The record of scoring most runs in a year in ODI format is currently in the name of Sachin Tendulkar. Who scored 1894 runs in 33 ODI innings in the year 1998 at an average of 65.31. This year, 9 centuries and 7 half-centuries were also seen from Sachin’s bat. Now Gill can break this 25 year old record, in which he is now only 664 runs behind. Gill will get a chance to play at least 9 matches in the World Cup. After this, India also has to play a 3-match ODI series against South Africa at the end of the year.
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