Shubman Gill creates new milestone, join elite group of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli

Shubman Gill’s dominating performance continues as the batter and the multi-format captain of the Indian cricket team. Along with the 3-0 series win against Afghanistan on July 20, the top-order batter has touched another milestone and taken a step inside an elite club.

Team India cleaned sweep the 3-match ODI series against Afghanistan before their away series against Ireland and England, respectively. They faced Afghanistan in a one-off Test and then in a 3-match ODI contest, Indian wins all four matches.

Shubman Gill has touched another milestone in ODIs for India

Gill has created a record in the ODIs. He is now one of the top Indian talents who has the most Player of the Series awards in the One Day International format for the Indian cricket team. The chart is topped by the batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, who claimed 15 Player of the Series awards before taking retirement from ODIs.

The current ODI and Test skipper of India, who is only 26, has already claimed 6 Player of the Series awards in the format. Former India captain Rohit Sharma also has the same number of Player of the Series awards.

In the recently concluded India vs Afghanistan ODI series, Shubman Gill was named the best player of the match twice, which helped him to capture the player of the series title as well. Ahead of the series, he had five Player of the Match awards; now, he has 6.

Most Player of the Series award for India in ODIs:

Sachin Tendulkar: 15

Virat Kohli: 11

Sourav Ganguly/ Yuvraj Singh/ MS Dhoni: 7

Rohit Sharma/ Shubman Gill: 6

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A century and a half-century for the skipper

In the first match of the ODI series, Gill remained unbeaten for 84 runs, and in the second game, he showed his peak game with a masterful 154-run knock at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.

For the third and final fixture against Afghanistan, he did not come to bat as Yashasvai Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma, and Shreyas Iyer accomplished the task for the team. Gill concluded the contest as the highest run-scorer of the series with 238 runs in three matches at an average of 238.00 and a strike rate of 135.23.

Shubman Gill is pleased with the performance

The skipper sounded pleased with the effort his team showed in the series. After the third match at Chepauk, Shubman Gill said that they ticked a lot of boxes. One of the aims they had was to capture the middle overs games with the bat and with the ball; they did both with precision in the competition.

A lot of the boxes are ticked. We spoke about keeping the intensity in the middle overs, and some of the things that we also spoke about were how we can keep creating those opportunities in the middle overs as a bowling unit and as a batting unit, how we can keep pushing for the extra runs in the middle overs, and I think a lot of those boxes were ticked.