Team India's young star batsman Shubman Gill batted explosively and scored 126 runs in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. On the basis of his innings, Punjab easily crushed the strongest team in domestic cricket.

Shubman Gill: Team India's ODI vice-captain Shubman Gill is in great form. Gill, who returned to domestic cricket, scored a century for Punjab in Ranji Trophy 2025. Gill has played many great innings at the international level as well as in domestic cricket, in which a brilliant innings came in his Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Shubman Gill batted in a stormy manner and scored 126 runs in just 55 balls. On the basis of his innings, Punjab, batting first, crushed a strong team like Karnataka.

Gill thrashed Karnataka bowlers

Opener Shubman Gill scored a brilliant century in the first quarter-final while playing for Punjab in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022. Punjab had a very bad start in this match. Openers Abhishek Sharma (4) and Prabhsimran Singh (4) could not play any big innings and both returned to the pavilion on the score of 10 runs. But from here Shubman Gill, along with Anmolpreet Singh, took charge of Punjab's innings and scored 225 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.

In this match, Shubman Gill took on the Karnataka bowlers and scored 126 runs in just 55 balls, in which he hit 11 fours and 9 sky-high sixes. The special thing is that in this match, Gill broke the bowlers of Karnataka with a strike rate of 229.

Punjab won the exciting match

On the basis of Shubman Gill's century innings, Punjab was able to put a big score on the scoreboard. The Punjab team, which made a splash in batting, also started tightening the screws on Karnataka in bowling. Punjab had taken 3 wickets of Karnataka for just 18 runs and started tightening the screws on the match, but the middle order and lower order batsmen together increased the heartbeat of Punjab fans at one time.

Abhinav Manohar (62 runs off 29 balls), Manoj Bhagde (9 balls, 25 runs), Krishnappa Gautam (14 balls, 30 runs) and Manish Pandey made important contributions of 45 runs off 29 balls, but they could not get their team across the threshold of victory. Karnataka managed to reach 216 runs in the stipulated 20 overs, but lost the match by 9 runs.