Shubhman Gill has been in a rich vein of form in the 50-over format. The batter has scored 1254 runs in 21 innings at a staggering average of 73.76 and made a double hundred against New Zealand in the first ODI in Hyderabad.
Centuries from openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill, followed by three-wicket hauls from Shardul Thakur and Kuldeep Yadav, helped India defeat New Zealand by 90 runs in the third and final ODI of the series at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore on Tuesday.
Gill is enjoying a brilliant 2023 in ODIs, having scored 567 runs in six innings at an average of 113.40. He has three ODI tons and a fifty this year, with the best score of 208
Pathan also said that he liked pace veteran Mohammed Shami's performance in the second ODI, whose spell of 3/18 proved to be instrumental in bundling out a powerful Kiwi batting lineup for just 108. The former all-rounder spoke of how he liked Shami setting up the dismissal of opener Finn Al
Notably, this year also marks a decade of Rohit being an opening batter for India, something which transformed his career graph and statistics drastically. He has largely looked in supreme touch in ODIs this year. In five ODIs this year, he has scored 227 runs at an average of 45.40 and a st
Following his match-winning double century in the first ODI against New Zealand, rising India batter Shubman Gill said he was not thinking of scoring a double century initially but the sixes he hit in the 47th over made him feel that he could score one.
India was dominating the match and had Kiwis struggling at 131/6 in their pursuit of 350 runs, but a 162-run stand for seventh stand between Michael Bracewell and Mitchell Santner almost snatched the match from India