New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Shubman Gill might have fallen 20 runs short of Sunil Gavaskar's record for most runs in a Test series by an Indian cricketer, but that doesn't take away any credit from the current captain, opined the legend himself. With three hundreds and a double hundred in the series against England, Gill finished the series with 754 runs in 10 innings to his kitty, falling short of Gavaskar's 774 runs against West Indies in the seventies.

Such impressed was Gasvakar, who is a part of the commentary panel in the series, the 76-year-old also presented Gill with a small gift after the latter was dismissed on the third day of the fifth Test durng India's second innings.

After Gill played his final knock of the series at the Oval, ...