Srinagar: India’s young opener Shubman Gill has smashed a 24 year old record set by batting legend Sachin Tendulkar after scoring his maiden International century against Zimbabwe in Harare.
Gill scored 130 off 97 balls, hitting 15 fours and a six. The right handed batter entered into the record books by scoring highest score by an Indian in an ODI in Zimbabwe. Gill broke Sachin Tendulkar’s 24-year-old record. Tendulkar had scored an unbeaten 127 in Bulawayo way back in 1998.
Gill shared a 140-run third-wicket partnership with Kishan, who reached his half-century before being run out by Tony Munyonga.
Gill’s innings finally came to an end in the first ball of the final over when he sought a boundary, but he achieved height rather than length off a Brad Evans delivery and was caught at long-off by Innocent Kaia. But by then he had ensured that India reached a formidable total of 298 for 8 batting first.
“It’s a great bunch of players and I have been playing with them for some time now,” Gill, who was adjudged Player fo the Series for scoring 245 runs in three ODIs, said after the match.
