Overview
- India host South Africa in a two-Test series starting November 14 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
- Gill has 946 runs in 13 innings as captain and needs 54 in his first innings to reach 1,000 faster than Sunil Gavaskar’s 15-innings mark.
- The opener’s five Test centuries in 2025 leave him one short of breaking Virat Kohli’s single-year record for an India Test captain.
- Two hundreds in this series would equal Sachin Tendulkar’s India record of seven Test centuries in a calendar year.
- Across World Test Championship play, Gill has 2,839 runs and is 161 shy of 3,000, and Times Now reports that 54 in this series would make him the first to 1,000 in the 2025–27 cycle.