Birmingham Test: India's Biggest Win In Abroad. Shubman Shines
- By Thetripurapost Sports Desk, Birmingham
- Jul 07, 2025
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India defeated England by a huge margin of 336 runs in the Birmingham Test. This was India's biggest win by a margin of runs outside home. The team won a Test in Birmingham for the first time. Akashdeep took 10 wickets for 187 runs in the match. This was the record of the best bowling by an Indian bowler in Birmingham.
India won the Test for the first time in Birmingham. The team has been playing Tests here since 1967, but won for the first time. India had earlier played 8 Tests in Birmingham, lost 7 and drew just 1. Captain Shubman became the only captain of India to win a Test in Birmingham.
India defeated England by a huge margin of 336 runs in Birmingham. This is India's biggest win by run margin outside the home ground. The team had earlier defeated West Indies by 318 runs at Antigua ground in 2016. Under the captaincy of Captain Shubman, India also made the record of the biggest win in England by run margin. Earlier, the team had won the match by 279 runs at Leeds ground in 1986.
Akashdeep took 4 wickets in the first innings and 6 wickets in the second innings of the Birmingham Test. He finished the match with 10 wickets for 187 runs. He became the best bowling Indian in Birmingham. Before him, in 1986, Chetan Sharma had taken 10 wickets in the match for 188 runs.
Shubhaman Gill, the Indian who scored the most runs in a Test, scored 161 runs in the second innings after scoring 269 runs in the first innings. He scored 430 runs in a Test. This is the record for the most runs in a Test by an Indian player and captain. Gill broke the record of Virat Kohli, who scored 293 runs in a match against Sri Lanka in 2017 while captaining.
Gill also became the highest run-scorer for India in a Test. He broke the record of Sunil Gavaskar, who had scored 344 runs against West Indies in 1971. Gill remained just 27 runs short of the record of most runs in a Test. The record of most runs in a Test is held by England's Graham Gooch, who had scored 456 runs against India in 1990. Shubman became only the 5th player in the world to score 400 plus runs in a Test.
Gill Shubman Gill hit the most sixes in a Test in England, hitting 3 sixes in the first innings and 8 sixes in the second innings. He finished his batting by hitting 11 sixes. With this, he became the player to hit the most sixes in a Test in England. He left behind England's Andrew Flintoff, Ben Stokes and India's Rishabh Pant. All three had the record of 9 sixes each.
India scored 587 runs in the first innings and 427 runs in the second innings. Team India scored 1014 runs in the match. For the first time in Test history, India crossed the thousand run mark. Earlier in 2003, India had scored 916 runs against Australia in the Sydney Test.
England's captain Ben Stokes got caught behind on the very first ball in the first innings. Mohammad Siraj bowled a bouncer to him and he was caught by wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. Stokes got out on zero for the 16th time in his 113 test career, but this was the first time a bowler sent him to the pavilion on the first ball. The record of playing the most innings in test cricket without a golden duck is in the name of India's Rahul Dravid, who got a golden duck after 286 innings.
Jamie Smith remained not out after scoring 184 runs in the first innings. This was the highest score by any wicketkeeper batsman in England in Tests. He broke the 28-year-old record of Ellis Stewart, who scored 173 runs against New Zealand in 1997.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, the fastest Indian to score 2000 Test runs, scored 28 runs in the second innings after scoring 87 runs in the first innings. With this, he also completed 2 thousand Test runs. For this he took just 40 innings. He became the fastest batsman from India to complete 2 thousand Test runs. He equaled Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag. Both also completed 2 thousand Test runs in 40-40 innings.
Shubman also became the Indian player to score the highest score in an innings in England . He broke Sunil Gavaskar's 46-year-old record. Gavaskar had scored 221 runs at The Oval ground in 1979. Apart from these two, only Rahul Dravid could score a double century on the ground of England in 2002.
Shubman's double century was also the best score by an Indian captain in Tests. He broke the record of Virat Kohli, who played an unbeaten innings of 254 runs against South Africa in Pune in 2019.
Shubman Gill became only the fifth Indian to score a century in both innings of the SENA Test. Before him, only Rishabh Pant, Virat Kohli, Rahul Dravid and Vijay Hazare could do so.
Shubman Gill became the first batsman in the world to score 250 and 150 runs in a Test. Graham Gooch and Kumar Sangakkara have the record of scoring 300 and 100 runs in Tests. At the same time, Allan Border had the record of scoring 150 plus runs in both innings.
After 22 years an Indian has scored a double century in England. The last time Rahul Dravid scored 217 runs was in 2002.
Shubman Gill, 25 years 301 days old, became the youngest Indian captain to win a Test outside Asia. Before him, Sunil Gavaskar, 26 years 202 days old, had won a Test in New Zealand in 1976.