Birmingham, July 5 -- Indian bowling coach Morne Morkel hailed skipper Shubman Gill after a record-breaking outing at Birmingham, saying that the batter has handled the expectations really well so far and has been "exceptional".

Gill concluded a record-breaking Birmingham Test against England with breathtaking knocks of 269 and 161 across both innings, making him the batter with the second-highest aggregate (430) of runs in a Test match after Graham Gooch (456) against India at Lord's in 1990.

He also became the second batter to register 150-plus scores in both innings of a Test after Allan Border (150* & 153) against Pakistan in Lahore in 1980. Gill's outing is also the first instance of a 250-plus and 150-plus score in a Test by a bat...