The high-scoring thriller at last came to an end and the blues made it possible with a win but not to forget how close the visitors were despite Shubman Gill’s double ton gave the Kiwis a tough target of 350 runs. In the first innings, the Indian top order hoped to survive well after the Sri Lanka dominance but it was only Shubman Gill who played till the end to give team India a tough total, which was worth defending for.
Shubman Gill became the youngest cricketer to smash a double century in the ODI format and also the 5th Indian cricketer to achieve this incredible milestone.
The gap between Gill (208) and the next highest scorer (Rohit Sharma’s 34) is 174 runs, which ranks as the third-largest such gap in an innings. The biggest difference of this kind was 198 runs when Rohit Sharma scored 264 and Virat Kohli scored 66 against Sri Lanka in Kolkata in 2014.
