Captain Shubman Gill joins Kohli, Tendulkar in elite club after 154 vs Afghanistan

India skipper Shubman Gill etched his sanction into the grounds books with a magnificent 154-run sound against Afghanistan successful the 2nd ODI astatine the Ekana Stadium successful Lucknow. The innings not lone powered India to a ascendant 170-run triumph and an unassailable 2-0 pb successful the three-match bid but besides placed Gill alongside immoderate of the biggest names successful Indian cricket history.Gill's 154 disconnected 110 balls was his archetypal 150-plus people arsenic an ODI captain, making him lone the seventh Indian skipper to execute the feat. In doing so, helium joined an elite database featuring Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Virender Sehwag, Kapil Dev and Mohammad Azharuddin.

Indian Captains With 150+ Scores successful ODIs

Virender Sehwag continues to clasp the grounds for the highest ODI people by an Indian skipper with his stunning 219 against the West Indies. Rohit Sharma and Sehwag stay the lone Indian skippers to people ODI treble centuries, portion Virat Kohli is the lone skipper from India to registry 2 150-plus scores portion starring the side.

Gill leads from the front

On a sweltering day successful Lucknow, Gill produced 1 of the finest innings of his captaincy career. Coming successful aft the aboriginal dismissal of Yashasvi Jaiswal, the skipper archetypal stitched unneurotic a invaluable basal with Rohit Sharma earlier taking implicit power of the contention alongside Ishan Kishan.Gill smashed 22 fours and 2 sixes during his 110-ball stay, portion Kishan hammered 125 disconnected conscionable 79 deliveries. The brace added a match-defining 224 runs for the 3rd wicket arsenic India piled up 402 earlier being bowled retired successful the last over.

Afghanistan ne'er recovered from the daunting chase. Rahmat Shah fought hard with 79, but regular strikes from Arshdeep Singh and Gurnoor Brar ensured India bowled retired the visitors for 232 successful 44.3 overs. The broad triumph handed India their archetypal ODI bid triumph nether Gill's leadership.