India Crush West Indies: Gill's Record 223 Seals Epic Win

 India’s response was extraordinary. Rohit Sharma set a fire with 101 off 75 before Shubman Gill turned it into a record-breaking assault. Rohit and Gill contributed 255 for the opening wicket and dismantled the asking rate. Virat Kohli contributed a brisk 29 before Ruturaj Gaikwad joined Gill to complete an amazing chase at 406/2 in 43.3 overs. India were four runs behind after ten overs. But then India switched gears, and there was no looking back. What an effort! What A BRILLIANT MATCH!!!! What an epic by Shubman Gill…

 A RECORD CHASE FOR INDIA!!!!

There it is, India gets home with more than six overs left in the game and eight wickets in hand. Shubman Gill has a big innings. He is still unbeaten on 223. This is India’s highest chase and this is only the second time that a score of over 400 has been chased down in ODI history

200 for Indian skipper!!!!  

Shubman Gill gets to 200. This is his second Double Hundred in ODIs and it comes in just 68 innings. This is the fastest double hundred in the history of ODIs. Just the second batter to score multiple double hundreds in ODIs. And also only the second batter to score a double hundred in a chase.

 Shubman Gill is on 182*

. He is on his way to a double century if he gets there. And if he goes past 201 in the end of the match, it will be the highest score by an individual in a successful chase. This is extremely fine by the Indian skipper, especially at a chase of this length. Great chance for Gaikwad to get in. Ruturaj Gaikwad has joined Shubman Gill in the middle. For the CSK skipper this is a great chance to get some time in the middle in a very good fashion, remain not out and finish things for the team. India will try to get past the line as quickly as possible. West Indies are in a mental hole so dominating the rest of the innings and making a real statement will be the aim for Indian cricket.

IND - 332/2 (34).

 WHAT A CATCH!!!!! A short ball and Kohli plays a classic ramp shot. The shot looked so good off the bat. But Rutherford was there in the deep. He takes the catch, shows great balance and awareness to hold on to it. Virat Kohli departs. But he has given India the impetus it needed after the dismissal of Rohit Sharma. IND - 320/2 (32.1).

This is absolute carnage!!!

 Virat Kohli has taken over from Rohit Sharma and has played some really good shots. The required rate has gone way below 6 now. In a chase of 406, the required rate is way below run a ball with about 20 overs to go. That is unreal!!!! That is unbelievable!!! There is no stopping Shubman Gill. The Indian skipper Shubman Gill has now gone past 150. That is his third 150 plus score. A perfect captain's knock from the man. He is relentless in this knock and looks determined to not stop before the chase is over. No respite for West Indies. Rohit Sharma walks back.

That should give a bit of relief to the bowling team. But look at the stands and look who is coming out to bat. It is VIRAT KOHLI. One titan comes in and the other. Kohli and Gill will now look to finish this off. Is he gone!!! APPEAL!!!! The umpire has raised the finger.

Is that the first wicket??!!!

 Rohit Sharma is not impressed by the call. He has a chat with Shubman Gill and sends this upstairs. Let us see and hope that India can do well with this review. No bat in that.

The ball tracking shows three reds. OH!!!! End of a classic knock. Rohit Sharma has to walk back. India loses their first wicket. But the game is mostly done.

 IND - 255/1 (26.2).

 Rohit ‘Hitman’ Sharma gets to his 35th ODI hundred. And there is the century for Rohit Sharma. This is his 35th ODI hundred!!! What a presentation of batting this has been. What a partnership this has been. And this is also a big huge statement. This man is far from done!!! He can still function under pressure

TAKE A BOW CHAMPION! 

This is supreme domination. Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill are both so pleasing to the eye. Watching this partnership unfold is like poetry in motion. There’s no better sight. The way these make their game shift gears, play shots is just amazing to say the least. Shubman Gill vs Virat Kohli after 11 ODI hundreds.

 Shubman Gill is ahead of Virat Kohli’s early ODI century curve. Gill has now got 11 ODI hundreds in just 68 innings while Kohli took 82 innings to get there - Gill is 14 innings quicker. Kohli's 11th was the iconic 183 against Pakistan in 2012; Gill has already passed the same century count much earlier in terms of opportunities. The ODI captain’s rate of accumulation is quite extraordinary. Gill’s extraordinary conversion rate.

 Shubman Gill does not just get starts in ODI cricket - he converts them. His 11th century means Gill now has 31 scores of fifty or more, 11 hundreds and 20 fifties. That gives him a 50-to-100 conversion rate of 35.5%. And in other words, more than one every three times Gill attains the age of fifty, he goes on to make a century.

Shubman Gill you beauty!!! FOUR! That is it! 

The century for Indian captain. It is 11th ODI century. He has this great knack of converting 50s into hundreds. And of course, the present form of his is very interesting. Shubman Gill is slowly becoming an ODI giant. Gill is now going faster. Shubman Gill is really making hell on these West Indian bowlers.

 He is waiting for the bad deliveries and putting away the loose ones out of the fence at will. The Indian skipper has raced off into the 90s and done it in fewer deliveries than Rohit Sharma. West Indies are looking as if they have already surrendered the game. At last Vitel Lawes. At last Hope turns to Vitel Lawes. This could be interesting!!!! How Gill and Sharma play him will be interesting. How Lawes goes about this over will be even more interesting. Mind you, he is a proper wicket-taker. He may give away a few runs, but he will look for wickets for sure. A deeper look at Rohit Sharma's 12,000 ODI runs. Rohit Sharma has already scored 12,000 ODI runs in just 282 innings, the second-fastest ever behind Virat Kohli (242) and ahead of Sachin Tendulkar (300).

 He is only the seventh batsman overall, and third Indian, to reach the landmark. Rohit went from 10,000 to 12,000 in just 41 innings - only four more than Kohli needed for the same period. 12000 ODI runs. So Rohit Sharma now goes past 12,000 ODI runs. Just a couple of days ago Virat Kohli went past 15,000 ODI runs. So those two together have 27,000+ ODI runs.

What a dressing room to be a part of!!!!

 Where is Vitel Lawes? Shai Hope is using Roston Chase against Gill and Sharma. Both these players are great players of off-spin and they will not spare him. Vitel Lawes might have given Hope the chance of a wicket. Yes he could be taken for runs. But he brings in a different flavour. Gill gets to his fifty.

 Shubman Gill has been the control factor in this partnership. While Rohit Sharma has taken on the bowling, the Indian skipper has mixed caution with aggression. Well, his purple patch continues as he goes past the 50-mark. Both him and the team will hope that he continues batting and this partnership keeps on stretching. The platform is laid

Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill look comfortable and are motoring along. The partnership has worked 121 runs, and the stage has been laid for this epic chase. With the chase master himself due to come in next, India look well on the way to breaking a record tonight.