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France 24
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- France 24
Tendulkar says 'life has come full circle' with Lord's portrait
Tendulkar is one of the greatest batsmen cricket has known, scoring 34,357 runs in Test matches, one-day internationals and one T20 for India in an international career that spanned 24 years from 1989 to 2013. That total is over 6,000 more runs than the next highest of 28,016 compiled by Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara. "I remember standing near the pavilion, soaking in the history and dreaming quietly," Tendulkar said of his first visit to Lord's in 1988 as a teenager in a post on X. "Today, to have my portrait unveiled at this very place is a feeling that's hard to put into words. Life has truly come full circle. I'm grateful, and filled with wonderful memories." The portrait, by Stuart Pearson Wright, is painted from a photograph taken by the artist in Tendulkar's home in Mumbai 18 years ago and was unveiled before the first day of the third Test between England and India. It is the fifth portrait of an Indian player in the collections of Marylebone Cricket Club, the owners of Lord's.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cricket-'Prince' Gill joins elite with 430-run haul at Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -Shubman Gill joined elite company when he followed up his captain's knock of 269 in the first innings with 161 in the second as England struggled to find a chink in the armour of the man nicknamed "The Prince" at Edgbaston on Saturday. As India piled on the runs to set the hosts a mammoth target of 608, Gill became only the fifth man to score 400 runs in a test, joining an illustrious list including England's Graham Gooch, Australian Mark Taylor, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and West Indian Brian Lara. Former England fast bowler Stuart Broad took 604 test wickets but struggled to find a weakness in Gill's batting. "As a bowler, I'll be looking for technical things so I could expose him, but he's not shown any obvious signs of dismissal and he's played stylishly," Broad told Sky Sports. "He's played with huge responsibility, under big pressure. It's breathtaking and deserves all the applause he is going to get." India have never won a test match at Edgbaston but the venue will go down in history as the first ground where they registered more than 1,000 runs in a test match (1,011). In his second match as captain and under fire from day one after resting Jasprit Bumrah, the world's number one ranked test bowler, Gill took on the England attack and plundered 430 runs in two innings. He became only the second batter in history to score 200 and 150 in the same test match after Australian great Allan Border, 45 years ago, while he is behind only Gooch (456) for most runs by a batter in a test. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's long-standing record of 344 runs in a single test for India, which came against the West Indies 54 years ago. Indian batters have often struggled in seaming conditions in England but Gill mixed elegance and explosiveness to torment the bowlers. Having also scored a century in the first test, Gill took his run tally to 585 in two matches. The Indian record for most runs in a test series in England belongs to Rahul Dravid (602) while Virat Kohli scored 593. Gill could easily break that record at Lord's in the next match and the sky is the limit with three matches left. He also set the record for the most sixes by an Indian captain when he cleared the rope eight times in the second innings as India set England a massive target of 608 to win the match. "Well played, Star Boy. Rewriting history," Kohli wrote on Instagram. "Onwards and upwards from here. You deserve all of this."
Reuters
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
'Prince' Gill joins elite with 430-run haul at Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM, England, July 5 (Reuters) - Shubman Gill joined elite company when he followed up his captain's knock of 269 in the first innings with 161 in the second as England struggled to find a chink in the armour of the man nicknamed "The Prince" at Edgbaston on Saturday. As India piled on the runs to set the hosts a mammoth target of 608, Gill became only the fifth man to score 400 runs in a test, joining an illustrious list including England's Graham Gooch, Australian Mark Taylor, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and West Indian Brian Lara. Former England fast bowler Stuart Broad took 604 test wickets but struggled to find a weakness in Gill's batting. "As a bowler, I'll be looking for technical things so I could expose him, but he's not shown any obvious signs of dismissal and he's played stylishly," Broad told Sky Sports. "He's played with huge responsibility, under big pressure. It's breathtaking and deserves all the applause he is going to get." India have never won a test match at Edgbaston but the venue will go down in history as the first ground where they registered more than 1,000 runs in a test match (1,011). In his second match as captain and under fire from day one after resting Jasprit Bumrah, the world's number one ranked test bowler, Gill took on the England attack and plundered 430 runs in two innings. He became only the second batter in history to score 200 and 150 in the same test match after Australian great Allan Border, 45 years ago, while he is behind only Gooch (456) for most runs by a batter in a test. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's long-standing record of 344 runs in a single test for India, which came against the West Indies 54 years ago. Indian batters have often struggled in seaming conditions in England but Gill mixed elegance and explosiveness to torment the bowlers. Having also scored a century in the first test, Gill took his run tally to 585 in two matches. The Indian record for most runs in a test series in England belongs to Rahul Dravid (602) while Virat Kohli scored 593. Gill could easily break that record at Lord's in the next match and the sky is the limit with three matches left. He also set the record for the most sixes by an Indian captain when he cleared the rope eight times in the second innings as India set England a massive target of 608 to win the match. "Well played, Star Boy. Rewriting history," Kohli wrote on Instagram. "Onwards and upwards from here. You deserve all of this."
CNA
05-07-2025
- Sport
- CNA
'Prince' Gill joins elite with 430-run haul at Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM, England :Shubman Gill joined elite company when he followed up his captain's knock of 269 in the first innings with 161 in the second as England struggled to find a chink in the armour of the man nicknamed "The Prince" at Edgbaston on Saturday. As India piled on the runs to set the hosts a mammoth target of 608, Gill became only the fifth man to score 400 runs in a test, joining an illustrious list including England's Graham Gooch, Australian Mark Taylor, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and West Indian Brian Lara. Former England fast bowler Stuart Broad took 604 test wickets but struggled to find a weakness in Gill's batting. "As a bowler, I'll be looking for technical things so I could expose him, but he's not shown any obvious signs of dismissal and he's played stylishly," Broad told Sky Sports. "He's played with huge responsibility, under big pressure. It's breathtaking and deserves all the applause he is going to get." India have never won a test match at Edgbaston but the venue will go down in history as the first ground where they registered more than 1,000 runs in a test match (1,011). In his second match as captain and under fire from day one after resting Jasprit Bumrah, the world's number one ranked test bowler, Gill took on the England attack and plundered 430 runs in two innings. He became only the second batter in history to score 200 and 150 in the same test match after Australian great Allan Border, 45 years ago, while he is behind only Gooch (456) for most runs by a batter in a test. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's long-standing record of 344 runs in a single test for India, which came against the West Indies 54 years ago. Indian batters have often struggled in seaming conditions in England but Gill mixed elegance and explosiveness to torment the bowlers. Having also scored a century in the first test, Gill took his run tally to 585 in two matches. The Indian record for most runs in a test series in England belongs to Rahul Dravid (602) while Virat Kohli scored 593. Gill could easily break that record at Lord's in the next match and the sky is the limit with three matches left. He also set the record for the most sixes by an Indian captain when he cleared the rope eight times in the second innings as India set England a massive target of 608 to win the match.
Times of Oman
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Times of Oman
League of Legends: Gill surpasses Gavaskar, Virat, joins Lara, Sangakkara, Gooch following historic double-ton, century combo at Birmingham
Birmingham: Indian skipper Shubman Gill's dreamy, record-breaking continued to tire out bowlers and statisticians alike as he became only the second Indian batter to score a double century and a century in the same Test and overall ninth batter to do so, joining legends like Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Graham Gooch, Kumar Sangakkara among others. After a brilliant 269 in 387 balls in the first innings, Gill ended the second session of day four unbeaten at 100* in 130 balls, with nine fours and three sixes. His runs came at a strike rate of 76.92. He has become only second Indian after Gavaskar to hit a double ton and century in the same Test, scoring 124 and 220 against West Indies at Port of Spain in 1971. Other batters having achieved this feat include Australia's KD Walters, West Indies RG Lowe, Australia's Greg Chappell, England's Gooch, WI icon Lara, Sri Lanka's Sangakkara and Australia's Marnus Labuschagne. With a total of 369 so far (and still going), Gill has outdone Gavaskar to have the highest aggregate for India in a single Test. Gavaskar's Port of Spain masterclass in 1971 was worth a total of 344 runs. He has outdone ex-skipper and legendary batter Virat Kohli (243 and 50) to have the highest aggregate by an Indian captain in a Test match. Virat's effort came against Sri Lanka at his home stadium, Arun Jaitley Stadium, back in December 2017. Gill is the second Asian batter with 350-plus aggregate in a Test outside the subcontinent after Pakistan's Hanif Mohammad (354: 17 and 337) at Bridgetown in 1958.' The youngster is also the third Asian batter to have a 300-plus run aggregate in a Test taking place in South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia (SENA) countries after Rahul Dravid (305) and Sachin Tendulkar (301) did that in Adelaide and Sydney respectively in 2003-04. He is also the only third Indian captain to have a 100-plus score in both innings of the Test, besides Gavaskar (against West Indies in Kolkata, 1978), Virat (against Sri Lanka in 2017). Gill is the second player to record three hundreds in his first two Tests as captain after Virat Kohli. So far in two Tests and four innings of this series, Gill is the top-run-getter by miles, scoring 524 runs at an average of 174.66, with three centuries. Shubman Gill's masterful century after his classy double ton in the first innings has put India in a strong position in the second Test against England, with the visitors ahead of hosts by 484 runs at Tea on the penultimate day. Rishabh Pant's scintillating innings of 65 runs off 58 balls helped India quickly pile up the runs. India was 304/4 at Tea with Gill (100*) and Jadeja (25*) unbeaten.
