Shubman Gill starred as Gujarat Titans defeated SunRisers Hyderabad by 34 runs on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Monday to verify a playoff spot for themselves. With the win, GT made an entry into the Qualifier 1 of IPL 2023. The Hardik Pandya-led aspect was invited to bat first and Gill made positive Gujarat reached a superb whole. He scored his maiden IPL century (101 off 58) and guided the crew to 188 for 9 in 20 overs regardless of SRH pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar returning figures of 5 for 30. In reply, SRH have been stopped at 154 for 9, due to 4 wickets every from Mohammed Shami and Mohit Sharma.

After Gill’s maiden IPL ton, a seven-year-old image of his with Virat Kohli has gone viral on social media. Uploading the the photograph by means of his Instagram account again in January 2016, Gill had written: “With my idol #bcciawards #juniorcricketeroftheyear @virat.kohli good luck for Australia tour.”

A Twitter person shared the image on social media after Gill’s maiden IPL ton on Monday and the followers have been fast to react to it.

You are meant for greatness when your idol is Virat kohli
Shubman Gill pic.twitter.com/bcBNAPBwWS

— leisha (@katyxkohli17) May 15, 2023

The duo had posed for the image in the course of the BCCI awards in 2016. While Kohli had acquired the Polly Umrigar Award for cricketer of the 12 months, Gill was named the most effective under-16 cricketer.

As the cricketing fraternity doffed its hat to Gill’s maiden IPL century on Monday, even Kohli took to Instagram and posted an ‘out of this world’ story for Gill, summing up the affect the opening batter has had on him and the present technology of gamers.

“There’s potential and then there’s Gill. Go on and lead the next generation. God bless you,” Kohli wrote in his Instagram story, backing the younger batter to change into a job mannequin for the following technology.