The cricketing world stood nonetheless and took discover Shubman Gill slammed his maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 century as Gujarat Titans defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 34 runs to qualify for the playoffs. Gill continued his purple patch with the bat, turning into the primary batter to go previous the 500-run mark for his franchise. As the cricketing fraternity doffed its hat to Gill, even Virat Kohli took to Instagram and posted an ‘out of this world’ story for Gill, summing up the influence the opening batter has had on him and the present era of gamers.

Kohli, who has additionally been in high-quality kind this season, subtly declared Gill as his successor in an excellent Instagram story.

“There’s potential and then there’s Gill. Go on and lead the next generation. God bless you,” Kohli wrote within the Instagram story, backing the younger batter to grow to be a task mannequin for the subsequent era just like the Royal Challengers Bangalore batter did throughout his prime.

Courtesy of a 101-run knock towards Hyderabad, Gill climbed to the No. 2 spot within the listing of run-scorers this season, with RCB skipper Faf du Plessis being the one one forward of him.

Gill, talking on the post-match presentation ceremony, was actually thrilled to have scored his first IPL century towards SRH, the crew towards which he had made his debut.

“I made my IPL debut against SRH and got my first hundred against them, so life has come a full circle. Hopefully, many more to come. It’s all about the bowlers and situation and I don’t dwell much on my last innings. It is important to focus on the situation in front,” he mentioned.

While Gill was the top-scoring batter for Gujarat, Mohammed Shami and Mohit Sharma bagged 4 wickets every to ease their crew’s development into the knockouts with a snug victory.