Shubman Gill-Sudharsan script history, equal Kohli-Gayle's massive T20 feat

NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans openers Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan continued their record-breaking tally successful IPL 2026, erstwhile again tearing isolated the bowling onslaught during the clash against Chennai Super Kings astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium connected Thursday.

The GT opening duo produced yet different commanding concern and, successful the process, entered an elite database successful T20 cricket history. Gill and Sudharsan registered their 10th period basal unneurotic successful men’s T20 cricket, equalling the all-time grounds jointly held by the legendary pairs of Chris Gayle-Virat Kohli, Babar Azam-Mohammad Rizwan and AB de Villiers-Virat Kohli.

What makes the accomplishment adjacent much staggering is the velocity astatine which the GT brace has got there.

Gill and Sudharsan needed lone 46 innings to implicit 10 period stands - acold less than the different legendary pairs connected the list. Gayle and Kohli took 63 innings, Babar and Rizwan 75, portion de Villiers and Kohli required 77 innings.

The brace besides acceptable different IPL grounds during the innings. This was Gill and Sudharsan’s seventh period concern for the opening wicket successful IPL past - the astir by immoderate opening brace successful the tournament.

They went past the iconic combinations of David Warner & Shikhar Dhawan and Travis Head & Abhishek Sharma, some of whom had six period opening stands.Gill and Sudharsan besides continued their dominance successful presumption of consistency. The duo overtook the celebrated Virat Kohli-Faf du Plessis brace and equalled Rohit Sharma-Ishan Kishan for the second-most 50-plus opening stands successful IPL history.The GT brace present has 15 fifty-plus opening partnerships successful conscionable 31 innings — a phenomenal ratio seldom seen successful IPL history.

Only Warner and Dhawan are up with 18 fifty-plus stands, but they needed 48 innings to execute the feat.

The numbers go adjacent much bonzer erstwhile 1 looks astatine the wide tally aggregate and scoring rate. Gill and Sudharsan person already piled up 1898 runs unneurotic arsenic an opening brace astatine an astonishing mean of 67.78 and a run-rate of 9.87 - making them 1 of the astir destructive and reliable opening combinations the league has ever seen.Only Warner and Dhawan person scored much runs arsenic an IPL opening pair, but the GT duo enjoys a importantly superior mean and scoring tempo compared to astir different partnerships connected the list.

The lucifer besides turned into a idiosyncratic milestone for Gujarat Titans skipper Gill, who became the seventh-fastest batter successful men’s T20 cricket to implicit 6000 runs successful presumption of innings. Gill reached the landmark successful his 185th innings, lone marginally down Kohli, who had taken 184 innings.

Gill’s feat becomes adjacent much singular considering helium is among lone 4 players successful men’s T20 cricket past to aggregate much than 6000 runs earlier turning 27. The elite database besides includes Babar Azam, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Will Jacks.Gujarat Titans person already qualified for the playoffs.