Babar Azam vs Shubman Gill: India’s emerging opener Shubman Gill has performed brilliantly in ODIs so far. He has scored a century in three of the last four ODIs. Recently, his bat went well in the ODI series against Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Shubman managed to score 207 runs including a century and a half-century in the three ODI series against Sri Lanka. After this, he also scored runs against New Zealand. He scored two centuries in the recently concluded three ODI series against the Kiwis. Seeing this performance of Shubman, he is being compared to Babar Azam. During this, some people called Shubman Gill better than Babar Azam. While some gave preference to Babar. However, on the basis of some statistics, Shubman Gill is heavy on the captain of Pakistan.
Both scored equal runs in the 3-match series
Shubman Gill scored 360 runs in three matches in the ODI series against New Zealand. During this he scored two centuries. His highest score was 208 in the ODI series against the Kiwis. Babar Azam also scored 360 runs in the three ODI series. In this way Shubman equaled Babur. Shubman’s score against New Zealand was 208, 40 not out and 112 runs.
Babar overtook in Fastest 1000 ODI runs
Shubman Gill left behind Babar Azam in the fastest time to complete 1000 runs in ODI cricket. Shubman is jointly second with Imam-ul-Haq of Pakistan in terms of fastest one thousand runs in ODIs. Both of them made a record of completing one thousand runs in 19 innings of ODI. While Babar had completed one thousand runs in 21 innings of ODIs. Shubman is ahead of Babar here. By the way, Fakhar Zaman completed the fastest one thousand runs in ODIs in 18 innings.
Shubman has scored a double century
Shubman Gill has scored a double century in ODIs. In the match played against New Zealand in Hyderabad, he scored an inning of 208 runs. Shubman was successful in scoring a double century in 20 ODIs of his career. He has scored 4 centuries in 21 ODIs so far. On the other hand, Babar Azam has played 95 ODIs but he failed to score a double century. So here too Shubman Gill is ahead of Pakistan captain Babar Azam.
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