India captain Shubman Gill broke an all-time national record on day four of the Edgbaston Test against England.
Shubman Gill breaks Sunil Gavaskar's 54-year-old record
India started day four of the second Test at 64-1, with KL Rahul and Karun Nair at the crease. Nair was dismissed by Brydon in the first session, nicking one to keeper Jamie Smith; bringing Shubman Gill to the crease, fresh off his knock of 269 in his first outing in the game.
Gill soon lost the company of Rahul, who was knocked over by Josh Tongue but was joined by Rishabh Pant. The pair took India to lunch at 177-3, the Indian captain on 24 and Pant on 41.
Once Pant was dismissed in the second session for a 58-ball 65, Gill began to take on the role of the aggressor. He went past 50 for the second time in the game, and in the 53rd over of India's innings slog-swept Shoaib Bashir for six to break an all-time national record.
That shot took his tally of runs in the match to 346 – the most ever scored by an Indian batter in a single Test match. Sunil Gavaksar's record of 344 runs had stood for 54 years. Soon after, Gill became the first Indian to score 350 runs in a Test match and shortly before tea, entered the top ten of all time by surpassing Garry Sobers's 365 for West Indies against Pakistan in 1958.
The overall record remains with England's Graham Gooch, whose 333 & 123 against India in 1990 gave him 456 runs in the match. Only three others – Mark Taylor, Kumar Sangakkara and Brian Lara – have scored 400 runs in a match.
Update: Gill was eventually dismissed on 161 off 162 balls, placing him second on the highest match aggregates of all time. At the end of the 83rd over, India declared on 427-6.
Most runs in a Test match, full list
| Player | Team | Score(s) | Runs | Opposition | Venue | Year |
| Graham Gooch | England | 333 & 123 | 456 | India | Lord's | 1990 |
| Shubman Gill | India | 269 & 161 | 430 | England | Birmingham | 2025 |
| Mark Taylor | Australia | 334* & 92 | 426 | Pakistan | Peshawar | 1998 |
| Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 319 & 105 | 424 | Bangladesh | Chattogram | 2014 |
| Brian Lara | West Indies | 400* | 400 | England | St John's | 2004 |
| Greg Chappell | Australia | 247* & 133 | 380 | New Zealand | Wellington | 1974 |
| Matthew Hayden | Australia | 380 | 380 | Zimbabwe | W.A.C.A | 2003 |
| Andy Sandham | England | 325 & 50 | 375 | West Indies | Kingston | 1930 |
| Brian Lara | West Indies | 375 | 375 | England | St John's | 1994 |
| Mahela Jayawardene | Sri Lanka | 374 | 374 | South Africa | Colombo (SSC) | 2006 |
| Garry Sobers | West Indies | 365* | 365 | Pakistan | Kingston | 1958 |
| Len Hutton | England | 364 | 364 | Australia | The Oval | 1938 |
| Graeme Smith | South Africa | 277 & 85 | 362 | England | Birmingham | 2003 |
| Hanif Mohammad | Pakistan | 17 & 337 | 354 | West Indies | Bridgetown | 1958 |
| Brian Lara | West Indies | 221 & 130 | 351 | Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 2001 |
| Younis Khan | Pakistan | 267 & 84* | 351 | India | Bengaluru | 2005 |
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