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Shubman Gill to lead India in 600th Test on Independence Day
India will play their 600th Test match on Saturday in Galle against Sri Lanka, becoming only the third team after England (over 1000 Tests) and Australia to reach the mark. Shubman Gill…
The Story in Brief
India will play their 600th Test match on Saturday in Galle against Sri Lanka, becoming only the third team after England (over 1000 Tests) and Australia to reach the mark. Shubman Gill will captain the side on the country's 80th Independence Day. India made their Test debut in 1932 and have 186 wins and 188 losses so far. Their first win came against England in Chennai in 1952, and they later registered their maiden series win against Pakistan that year. India's first overseas series win was against New Zealand in 1968.
Fifty years later, Virat Kohli's team became the first Asian side to win a Test series in Australia, a feat Ajinkya Rahane's side repeated in 2020-21. Sachin Tendulkar is India's leading Test run-scorer with 15,921 runs and 51 centuries, while Anil Kumble has taken the most wickets with 619. The two-Test series begins on Saturday, August 15.
The Indian Opinion
The 600th Test milestone is real, but the breathless framing of it as a 'huge honour' risks sounding like PR copy. India have lost nearly as many Tests as they have won, 186 wins, 188 losses. The true story is not the number itself but the long, grinding journey from debut in 1932 to beating Australia in Australia. Watch if Gill's captaincy shows the same steel that Ajinkya Rahane showed in 2021, or if the milestone becomes a distraction.
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