Shubman Gill 200 IND batting highlights link: India vs New Zealand 1st innings highlights Shubman Gill today run

Ruled out of the ongoing three-match ODI series between India and New Zealand due to a stiff back, India batter Shreyas Iyer was quick to acknowledge a mind-blowing batting effort from teammate Shubman Gill in the first ODI at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.

Iyer took to social media platform Twitter to express admiration of a “classy” Gill via a congratulatory tweet. In fact, Iyer wasn’t the only high-profile personality who was wax lyrical about Gill. The fact that an opponent in New Zealand all-rounder Daryl Mitchell also praised Gill’s effort on a Wednesday afternoon spoke highly of the latter’s career-best performance.

“Very special, to get a double century in one-dayers is pretty cool,” Mitchell told Star Sports during the mid-innings break today.

All class 💯💯

Congratulations and well played bro👏 @ShubmanGill pic.twitter.com/kSrKgeEiLe

— Shreyas Iyer (@ShreyasIyer15) January 18, 2023

Gill, who completed his half-century and century in the 19th and 30th over respectively, reached to the 150-run mark for the first time in his international career in the 43rd over. In terms of strike rate, the last three overs brought the best out of Gill as he hit a total of six sixes to bring up a maiden double century in the penultimate over.

Gill, who didn’t deter from his natural game in this phase, put faith in the same to dominate the Kiwi bowlers. Not letting his shape get affected whilst playing the big shots, Gill stood his ground only to hit right-arm pacers down the ground with what appeared to be effortless shots around the sight screen.

Shubman Gill 200 IND batting highlights link

As was on the expected lines due to the events which occurred in Hyderabad earlier in the day, host broadcaster Star Sports network haven’t taken a lot of time in uploading the highlights of the first innings of this match.

Interested fans can watch the moment when Gill brought up a double century by clicking here. A 9-minute highlight video of Gill’s third ODI century can be watched by clicking here. Highlights of the whole Indian innings can be watched by clicking here.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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