India, July 3 -- It's not often that you eclipse some of the legends of your country. But on Thursday, Shubman Gill would go to sleep a happy, content and proud man. Not many batters begin a tour of England with a century and better it in the next game. But Gill is cut from a different cloth. He has taken to batting after Indian Test captaincy like a fish to water. Just everything seems to be falling in place. 147 at Leeds, and now a double-century at Edgbaston, a venue where India have never won a Test match. What about his doubters, you ask? Well, it seems the cat caught their tongue.

On Day 2, Gill did something that hadn't been done in 23 years. After Rahul Dravid's 217 in 2002, Gill became the first Indian batter to register a doubl...