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Shubman Gill (born 8 September 1999) is an Indian international
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in domestic cricket as a right-handed
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. He was the vice-captain of the India U-19 team for 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He got awarded with Player of The Tournament for same U-19 Cricket World cup. He is the youngest cricketer to score a double century in ODI cricket. He made his
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debut against
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in 2017 and first-class debut for Punjab against
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in the
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, in late 2017, with a half-century in the game, and 129 runs in the LAST match against
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. He made his international debut for the
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in January 2019. He was drafted into India's Under-19 side as the vice-captain for the
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. Shubman scored 372 runs at an average of 124.00 at the tournament, where he batted at number three to play a crucial role in India's record fourth world title and was adjudged the edition's Player of the Tournament. His match-winning 102
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in the semi-final against arch-rivals Pakistan U-19 drew praises from batting greats such as
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Personal life

Shubman Gill's father Lakhwinder Singh was a farmer and Didar Singh Gill is his grandfather. He was born in Chak Khere wala'' (also reported as ''Chak Jaimal Singh Wala'')' village, which is present near Jalalabad Tehsil of
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district in Punjab state. Shubman Gill has a sister and her name is Shaheen Gill. His father Lakhwinder created a cricket ground in his farm for Gill's practice and a turf pitch to play, he used to challenge village boys to take his lad's wicket and if they were successful he would give them 100 rupees for it. According to Lakhwinder Singh he left farming in his village and moved to Mohali to make his boy a professional cricketer. For some years Gill took coaching from his school, after his father admitted him in Punjab cricket association's academy. Gill spent some years of his life in his village. Gill's father wanted to become a professional cricketer. In Gill's childhood he was interested in farming and he still wants to do farming according to his father. Shubman Gill is emotionally very attached to his village and his farm.


Early life

Shubman Gill was born in
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, Punjab. His family owned agricultural lands there. His father, Lakhwinder Singh, an agriculturist, wanted to become a cricketer but could not fulfil his dream. Instead, he decided to make Gill a good cricketer. He observed his son's cricketing ability at an early age and welcomed the opportunity to modify his cricketing capacity. He would ask the hired help on the farm to throw balls at Shubman to help him practice batting. Gill's father was convinced of his talent, and moved the family to Mohali and rented a house near the
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. Gill's father said that Shubman was passionate about cricket since the age of three. “He only played cricket since he was three-years-old. Kids of that age would play with toys. He never asked for such things. It was only bat and ball for him. He used to sleep with a bat and ball”, Gill's father, Lakhwinder Singh said. On his Under-16 state debut for Punjab, he hit an unbeaten double-century in the Vijay Merchant Trophy. In 2014, he scored 351 runs in Punjab's Inter-District Under-16 competition and shared a record opening stand of 587 runs with Nirmal Singh.


Domestic career

He made his
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debut for
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in the
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on 25 February 2017 against
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team. He made his first-class debut for Punjab in the
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on 17 November 2017. Later the same month, in his second first-class match, he scored his maiden century, batting for Punjab against
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. He scored 129 against Bengal team. In January 2018, he was bought by the
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for in the
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. He made his
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debut for Kolkata Knight Riders in the
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on 14 April 2018. In October 2018, he was named in India C's squad for the
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. In the final round-robin match, against
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, he scored an unbeaten century to help send India C through to the final. The following month, he was named as one of eight players to watch ahead of the
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. In December 2018, during Punjab's match against
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in the Ranji Trophy, Gill scored his maiden double century in first-class cricket, scoring 268 runs. On 25 December 2018, on the fourth day of the match against
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in the Ranji Trophy, with Punjab needing 338 runs from 57 overs, Gill scored 148 off 154 balls to almost single-handedly take his side to victory. The match finished as a draw, with Punjab ending the run chase at 324/8 in 57 overs. By 1 January 2019, Gill had scored 990 runs in first-class cricket, from fourteen innings across eight matches. One week later, he scored his 1,000th run in first-class cricket, in his fifteenth innings. He was the leading run-scorer for Punjab in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy, with 728 runs in five matches. In March 2019, he was named as one of eight players to watch by the
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(ICC) ahead of the
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tournament. He also won the Emerging Player of the tournament award in the
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. In August 2019, he was named as the captain of the India Blue team for the
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. In October 2019, Gill was selected as the captain of the India C team for the
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. In November 2019, he became the youngest cricketer to lead a side in the tournament. He was 20 years and 57 days old, beating
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's record, when he was 21 years 124 days old, during the 2009–10 tournament. Ahead of the 2022 IPL auction, Gill left the
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and was drafted by the newly formed
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franchise. In September 2022, Gill was signed up by
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as their overseas player for the remainder of the
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season. He did debut at Sophia ground opposite
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International

In February 2017, he was part of the Indian U-19 series win against England U-19. In December 2017, he was named vice captain of India's squad for the
2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup The 2018 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament that was held in New Zealand from 13 January to 3 February 2018. It was the twelfth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the third to be hel ...
. He was the leading run-scorer for India in the tournament, with 372 runs. He was also named the player of the tournament. Following India's matches in the tournament, the
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(ICC) named Gill as the rising star of the squad. In January 2019, Gill was added to India's squad for the limited-overs leg for their series against New Zealand. On 31 January 2019, he made his
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(ODI) cricket debut against
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in the fourth ODI match of the series at
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,
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. In August 2019, Gill became the youngest batsman for an Indian team to score a double century in a first-class match. He was 19 years and 334 days old when he scored 204 runs for
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against West Indies A at the
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in
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. The following month, he was named in India's
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squad for their series against South Africa, but he did not play. In December 2019, Gill was named as the captain of
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squad for their tour of New Zealand. In February 2020, he was again named in India's Test squad, this time for their series against New Zealand. Gill made his Test debut for India on 26 December 2020, against
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, helping India to a comeback win in the second match of the series. In the fourth Test at
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, he scored 91 runs to help India win the series. Gill scored his first ODI century for India against Zimbabwe at Harare on 22 August 2022. On 16 December 2022, against
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, Gill scored the first century of his Test career and was dismissed for 110 runs. Gill made his
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debut on 3 January 2023, against
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. He scored seven runs from five balls. On 18 Janurary 2023, against
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, Gill scored a double century. He became 5th Indian batsman to hit a double century in ODI's, and he is currently the youngest batsman in men's cricket to score a
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in ODI's. Shubhman Gill is known for his elegant batting style.


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