Shubman Gill continued his sublime form with the bat, scoring a fluent century in India’s second innings at Edgbaston after his monumental 269 in the first innings. Having begun the series with a sparkling 147 at Headingley,

But on Thursday, Shubman Gill would go to sleep a happy, content and proud man. Not many batters begin a tour of England with a century and better it in the next game. But Gill is cut from a different cloth.

Captain Shubman Gill is enjoying a dream run on India’s tour of England. After smashing a century in the Leeds Test, he has taken his form a notch higher at Edgbaston, delivering one of the greatest individual performances in Indian Test history.