The pair of Gill and Sudarshan became part of the special club - this feat happened for the second time in IPL history

IPL 2024: The bat of Gujarat Titans team captain Shubhman Gill and opening partner Sai Sudarshan was seen speaking strongly in the match against Chennai Super Kings. In this match, Gujarat team, which came to bat first after losing the toss, was successful in reaching the score of 231 in 20 overs on the basis of brilliant century innings of Gill and Sudarshan. While Gill scored 104 runs in this match, Sudarshan also managed to score 103 runs. Along with playing century innings, both the batsmen have also made their place in some special records in IPL.

For the second time in IPL, openers of one team scored a century in a match.

This is the 17th season of the Indian Premier League, in which this is only the second time so far that both the opening batsmen of the same team have been successful in playing century innings in a match. This is the third time in IPL history that two century innings have been seen from a single team in a match. Before this match, this feat was seen for the first time in the year 2016 in the match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Lions. For the second time, this feat was achieved in the match of Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2019 IPL season. In this match, a partnership of 210 runs was seen between Gill and Sudarshan, which is the fourth highest partnership for any wicket in the history of IPL.

Gill is the 9th player to score a century as captain in IPL.

Shubman Gill's bat, which had remained almost silent till now in this season of IPL, appeared in its full glory in the match against Chennai Super Kings. With his century of 104 runs, Gill has become the 9th player in IPL history to have scored a century as a captain. Earlier, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Adam Gilchrist, Virat Kohli, David Warner, KL Rahul, Sanju Samson and Ruturaj Gaikwad had achieved this feat. This was Gill's fourth century in T20 cricket on the Ahmedabad ground and he is the third player in this format to play four century innings on one ground. The first number in this list is Chris Gayle who has played 5 century innings in T20 cricket at Mirpur ground.