India, July 4 -- It has been a record-breaking outing in Birmingham for Shubman Gill, as India firmly seized control of the second Test by the close of Day 2. After piling up a mammoth first-innings total of 587, India had England reeling at 77/3 - a position of dominance largely scripted by Gill's epic 269, the highest-ever score by a visiting Asian captain in England. And for that knock, the young skipper credits head coach Gautam Gambhir.

Having already notched up his second consecutive hundred in his debut series as captain on Day 1 at Edgbaston, Gill went on to torment England further, making their decision to bowl first on a flat deck look increasingly questionable. His double hundred made him the first Asian captain to score 200 o...