India vs New Zealand: Shubman Gill continues golden run, hits maiden T20I hundred in Ahmedabad

IND vs NZ, third T20I: Shubman Gill struck his first T20 hundred, off 54 balls, within the ultimate match in opposition to New Zealand in Ahmedabad.

Ahmedabad,UPDATED: Feb 1, 2023 20:31 IST

India vs New Zealand: Shubman Gill hits maiden T20I hundred in Ahmedabad (AP Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: Young opener Shubman Gill produced an unbelievable show of power-hitting to hit his maiden T20I hundred in the course of the third T20I in opposition to New Zealand on Wednesday. Gill reached his century in merely 54 balls, as he turned the seventh Indian man to achieve the three-figure mark. India captain Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, KL Rahul, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli had earlier scored centuries within the shortest format of the sport to date.

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Gill reached his half-century in 35 deliveries after which, shifted gears as he scored one other fifty in merely 17 deliveries, hitting 10 fours and 5 sixes en path to his magnificent hundred. Overall, Gill turned solely the fifth Indian to attain a whole lot in all three codecs for India, after Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli.

Gill had an ODI collection to recollect in opposition to the Kiwis as he kicked issues off with a double hundred within the first ODI after which adopted it up with an unbeaten 40 within the subsequent one. The 23-year-old would then put the New Zealand bowlers to the sword once more as he scored 112 runs in Indore to equal Pakistan captain Babar Azam’s ODI report.

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Feb 1, 2023