India produced one of their greatest recoveries in Test cricket after the fall of the fifth wicket, piling up a mammoth 587 on Day 2 of the second Test against England. From 211/5, the visitors added 376 runs – the most India have ever scored after the fall of the fifth wicket in a Test innings, surpassing the previous best of 370 against West Indies in Kolkata (2013).Leading this remarkable turnaround was skipper Shubman Gill, who played a sublime knock of 269 off 387 balls, registering his maiden double hundred in Test cricket. It was a historic effort that saw him become the first Indian and Asian captain to score a Test double hundred in England, and also the highest individual scorer for India on English soil, surpassing Sunil Gavaskar’s 221 at The Oval in 1979.Gill’s effort was well supported by Yashasvi Jaiswal (87) and Ravindra Jadeja (89), with the latter partnering Gill in a 203-run sixth-wicket stand. Later, Kuldeep Yadav also chipped in, helping India post sixth 500-plus total by a visiting team at Edgbaston, the first since South Africa’s 594/5 declared in 2003.This was just the second time a visiting team had two century partnerships for the sixth wicket or lower in a Test innings in England, after West Indies at Trent Bridge in 1957. It’s also only the second such instance for India in an away Test, the first being Kingston, 1971.After Shubman Gill’s majestic double-century, pacer Akash Deep struck twice in two balls to leave England reeling on Thursday. In reply, England stumbled to 77 for 3 at stumps, trailing by a massive 510 runs.
