Young opener Shubman Gill produced an incredible display of power-hitting to hit his maiden T20I hundred during the third T20I against New Zealand on Wednesday. Gill reached his century in merely 54 balls, as he became the seventh Indian man to reach the three-figure mark. India captain Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, KL Rahul, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli had earlier scored centuries in the shortest format of the game so far.
Gill reached his half-century in 35 deliveries and then, shifted gears as he scored another fifty in merely 17 deliveries, hitting 10 fours and five sixes en route to his magnificent hundred. Overall, Gill became only the fifth Indian to score hundreds in all three formats for India, after Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli.
Gill had an ODI series to remember against the Kiwis as he kicked things off with a double hundred in the first ODI and then followed it up with an unbeaten 40 in the next one. The 23-year-old would then put the New Zealand bowlers to the sword again as he scored 112 runs in Indore to equal Pakistan captain Babar Azam’s ODI record.
