Shubman Gill entered the historical past books when he walked out for a toss throughout Gujarat Titans’ ongoing IPL 2024 sport in opposition to Delhi Capitals at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday. Gill grew to become the youngest Indian cricketer to play the a centesimal IPL sport, surpassing Virat Kohli‘s all-time milestone.
Aged 24y and 229d, the top-order batter missed out on his Gujarat Titans’ teammate Rashid Khan’s file by simply eight days. Rashid grew to become the youngest cricketer to play 100 IPL video games in the course of the 2023 version.Â
Youngest to 100 IPL appearances
- 24y, 221d – Rashid Khan
- 24y 229d – Shubman Gill (Today)Â
- 25y, 182d – Virat Kohli
- 25y, 335d – Sanju Samson
- 26y, 108d – Piyush Chawla
Gill made his Indian Premier League debut in the course of the 2018 version for Kolkata Knight Riders. He has established himself as one of many constant performers in the cash-rich league since his transfer to Gujarat in 2022. Gill has scored 3,088 runs in 96 IPL innings at a mean of 38.12 and a strike charge of 135.20 with three centuries and 20 fifties thus far.Â
After successful the essential toss in opposition to Delhi, Gill revealed that he has come a great distance in IPL however added that is simply specializing in the duty at hand.
“We will bowl first,” Gill mentioned after successful the toss. Looks like a superb wicket, we have been chasing properly in the final couple of video games. (On his a centesimal IPL look) Means loads to me, have come a great distance, nonetheless a great distance to go, however the focus is on at present’s match. It’s cricket, there’ll at all times be ups and downs, you need to play the way in which you are good at. We’re enjoying the identical aspect.”
Earlier in the IPL 2024, the top-order batter additionally broke Kohli’s file to turn out to be the quickest cricketer to register 3,000 runs in match historical past. Gill has scored 304 runs at a strike charge of 146.15 with two fifties in the IPL 2024.
