Test Cricket: A 5 -match Test series is currently being played between England and India. The influence of captaincy in international cricket also puts a lot on the player. Due to this, some players are shattered under its pressure and they do not like to captain it. Whereas in the meantime, some players start performing more brilliantly than before. That is why Indian batsman Shubman Gill has also done wonders in batting against England’s team in his captaincy debut series. During this time, let us make a look at the players who have scored the most centuries in the series, making a captaincy in Test cricket history.
1. Shubman Gill:-
Debuting the first position in the list of players who scored the most centuries in the series in his captaincy in Test cricket history, Indian team captain Shubman Gill has come on the first position. Because he has scored more than 700 runs in this released Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025. Meanwhile, his batting has become better than before.
That is why he has succeeded in scoring continuous runs on England tour. Meanwhile, he did not score only in Lord’s Test. Apart from this, he scored a brilliant centuries in Handingley, Edgbaston and Manchester Tests. At the same time, he played a very important role in the victory while playing innings of 269 and 161 runs in the Edgbaston Test match.
Gill achieved special achievement:-
Shubman Gill, captain of the Indian cricket team, has now become the second Indian captain to score more than 700 runs in one Test series. In this case, only Sunil Gavaskar (732 runs versus West Indies) has done this in this case.
2. Virat Kohli:-
The first Indian captain is Virat Kohli to score 3 centuries in his first Test series as a captain in Test cricket. Because he made his debut in the Test captaincy in the series played in Australia in 2014-15.
He scored 2 centuries (115 and 141) in that Test match. After this, his second century as captain in that series came in the second innings of Sydney Test (147). At the same time, he scored a total of 4 centuries in that Test series. But he scored a century under Dhoni’s captaincy.
3. These Australian captains have scored 3 centuries in the debut series:-
Meanwhile, only 4 other Australian players captained 3 centuries in their first Test series. In the year 1936-37, Don Bradman scored 3 centuries in the domestic Test series against England. At the same time, in the year 1920-21, Warvik Armstrong also scored 3 Test centuries in his domestic Ashes series.
4. Greg Chappell
After this, again in the year 1975-76, Greg Chappell also achieved this feat in the domestic tests series played against the West Indies. After this, in the India-Australia Test series in 2014-15, Australia’s star batsman Steve Smith scored 3 centuries while captaining.
