Shubman Gill

Shubman Gill (born 8 September 1999) is an Indian international cricketer who represents the Indian cricket team across all three formats.

He is the captain of the Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League and plays for Punjab in domestic cricket.

He is widely considered as one the best batsmen in contemporary world cricket.

Gill was born on 8 September 1999 into a Punjabi Sikh family in Fazilka, Punjab.

His father, Lakhwinder Singh, is an agriculturist who aspired to become a cricketer.

He has a sister named Shahneel Gill.

Gill showed early promise in cricket, starting to pick up a bat at the age of three.

Seeing his interest in the game, Lakhwinder decided to train him, and he used to bowl 500 to 700 balls every day to him.

He also holds the record for the fastest player to score 2000 runs in ODIs (38 innings).

In 2007, he moved the family to Mohali, near the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, so that Gill could train at a higher level.

Former Indian bowler Karsan Ghavri, impressed by Gill's performance, asked his father to send him to the Under-19 all India pace bowlers' camp when Gill was twelve years old.

Gill faced U-19 bowlers in the nets, and Ghavri, seeing Gill play, asked PCA to put him into Punjab's U-14 team.

During an Inter-District Under-16 match against Amritsar, Gill, playing for Mohali, scored 351 runs and shared a record opening stand of 587 runs with Nirmal Singh.

At the age of 14, he scored a double-century on his Under-16 debut for Punjab in the Vijay Merchant Trophy.

He made his List-A debut against Vidharbha in 2017 and first-class debut for Punjab against Bengal in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy, in late 2017, with a half-century in the game, and 129 runs in the last match against Services.

Gill made his List A debut for Punjab in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 25 February 2017 against Vidharbha, during which he scored 11 runs before being run out.

In his second match against Assam, he scored his maiden List A century, scoring 121 runs off 129 balls.

His first-class debut came against Bengal in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy on 17 November 2017.

Later in the same month, in his second first-class match, he scored his maiden century while batting for Punjab against Services.

He scored 129 runs off 142 balls.

Gill served as the vice-captain of the Indian Under-19 cricket team in the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup and won Player of the Tournament award.

A right-handed opening batsman, Gill holds the record for youngest cricketer to score a double century in One Day International cricket and the highest T20I score by an individual for the Indian team.

He was drafted into India's Under-19 side as the vice-captain for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

Shubman scored 372 runs at an average of 124.00 at the tournament, where he batted at number three to play a crucial role in India's record fourth world title and was adjudged the edition's Player of the Tournament.

His match-winning 102 not out in the semi-final against arch-rivals Pakistan U-19 drew praises from batting greats such as Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, and Sourav Ganguly.

In 2022, Gill was part of the IPL championship winning Gujarat Titans team.

Gill would go on to win the 2023 IPL Orange Cap, scoring 890 runs, the second highest total in IPL history, including three centuries.

Gill scored 129 in the IPL Qualifies 2, the highest individual score in IPL Playoffs history.

Gill was appointed as the captain of Gujarat Titans ahead of IPL 2024 after Hardik Pandya was traded to Mumbai Indians.

In October 2018, Gill was named in India C's squad for the 2018–19 Deodhar Trophy.

n the final round-robin match against India A, he scored an unbeaten century, helping send India C through to the final.

The following month, he was named as one of the eight players to watch ahead of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy by ESPNcricinfo.

In December 2018, during the match against Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy, Gill scored his maiden double century in first-class cricket, scoring 268 runs.

On 25 December 2018, on the fourth day of the match against Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy, with Punjab needing 338 runs from 57 overs, Gill scored 148 off 154 balls, almost single-handedly taking his side to victory.

The match finished as a draw, with Punjab ending the run chase at 324/8 in 57 overs.

In the match against Bengal, Gill surpassed 1,000 runs in first-class cricket in his fifteenth innings.

He was the leading run-scorer for Punjab in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy, with 728 runs in five matches.

He made his international debut for the Indian cricket team in January 2019.

In August 2019, Gill was named as the captain of the India Blue team for the 2019–20 Duleep Trophy.

In October 2019, he was selected as the captain of the India C team for the 2019–20 Deodhar Trophy.