India, June 21 -- Yashasvi Jaiswal must feel Test cricket is a breeze. Twenty matches, more than 1,900 runs, five centuries, three of them overseas. Not just overseas, but in his first appearance in each of those lands - in the Caribbean (Roseau, 2023), in Australia (Perth, 2024) and now in England (Leeds).

For Shubman Gill, life in the fast lane hasn't been as rewarding. At 25, he is two years older than the opener from Mumbai. Until Friday, the stylist had five hundreds from 32 games, but none outside Asia. Indeed, since making 91 in Brisbane in January 2021, in his maiden series, he hadn't scored a half-century in 18 innings in the West Indies, England, South Africa and Australia. He must have felt the pinch when he debuted as India's...