Shubman Gill

Shubman Gill is a professional cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team and captains the Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Born on 8 September 1999 in Firozpur, Punjab, the right-handed batter plays as an opening batter for the team.

Shubman rose to prominence following his ICC U19 World Cup 2018 performances. He scored 372 runs in the tournament, bagging the Player of the Tournament trophy, and featured in the ICC Team of the World Cup.

Shubman Gill: Along the Years

Shubman Gill Records

• Youngest cricketer to lead a side in the Deodhar Trophy

• Leading scorer for Punjab in the 2018-19 Ranji Trophy (728)

• Leading run-scorer for India in the 2018 U-19 WC (372)

• Youngest batter for an Indian team to score a double century in a first-class match vs West Indies A

• Youngest batter to score an ODI double-century (23 years and 132 days)

• Quickest batter to complete 2000 runs in ODI history (38 innings)

• Hundred in both innings of a test match
• Second-highest average in ODIs (59.04)
• Second most runs in a test series (754)

Shubman Gill Awards and Accolades

• ICC Player of the Month: Four-time recipient (January 2023, September 2023, February 2025, July 2025), the most by any male player. 
• ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year in 2023. 
• ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup Player of the Tournament
• BCCI Award for Best Junior Cricketer: Won for consecutive years in 2013-14 and 2014-15.
• Orange Cap (IPL 2023): Won for scoring the second-highest aggregate in an IPL season with 890 runs.
• Player of the Series (England ODI series 2025): Awarded for his outstanding performance in the series

Shubman Gill Career

Shubman Gill has been considered a prodigious talent for years by the cricketing fraternity due to his technical prowess. His international career started in 2019.

Shubman Gill Domestic Career

Shubman Gill made his List-A debut on 25th February 2017 against Vidarbha. His first-class debut came on 27th November 2017 as a member of the Punjab Ranji team. He scored a half-century in the first match and 129 in the second against Bengal.

In October 2018, he was named in India C's squad for the 2018–19 Deodhar Trophy. In the final round-robin match, against India A, he scored an unbeaten century to help send India C through to the final. In December 2018, during Punjab's match against Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy, Gill scored his maiden double century in first-class cricket, scoring 268 runs.

Shubman Gill IPL Career

Following his impressive stint at the 2018 U-19 World Cup and domestic tournaments, Shubman caught the eye of the cricketing fraternity and was bought for INR 1.8 crores by the Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2018 IPL auction. Gill had a decent campaign with the bat for KKR, but it was after getting drafted into the newly introduced Gujarat Titans that he found his groove and was instrumental in the Titans lifting the trophy in their maiden campaign (2022). Gill had a dream run in IPL 2023, bagging the Orange Cap for scoring 890 runs in 17 matches, including three centuries. He was appointed as the Titans’ skipper ahead of IPL 2024.

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Shubman Gill's International Career

Shubman Gill has had a tremendous start to his international career, with ODIs seeming to be his kingdom. The youngster has amassed more than 5000 runs across formats and is also on the list of batters with centuries in all formats.

Shubman Gill ODI Career

On the back of a mountain of runs posted by the Punjab-born batsman in the U-19 and domestic scene, Gill was added to India's squad for the limited-overs leg of their series against New Zealand in January 2019. On 31 January 2019, he made his One Day International (ODI) cricket debut against New Zealand in the fourth ODI match of the series at Seddon Park, Hamilton. Gill could only muster up nine runs in his 21-ball vigil at the crease and was snaffled up by Trent Boult. 

However, he scored his maiden century against Zimbabwe in 2022 and started getting regular game time from the beginning of 2023. Gill made an impact immediately as he hammered a double ton against the New Zealanders, making him the youngest (23 years and 132 days) to achieve the feat. He became the quickest batter (38 innings) to achieve 2000 runs in ODIs, surpassing the record of the legendary Hashim Amla (40 innings). Gill also became only the fourth Indian after Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, and Virat Kohli to achieve the ICC No. 1 ranking in the ODI format.

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Shubman Gill Test Career

In December 2020, while India was touring Australia, he made his Test debut at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He helped India win a historic series in Australia with a tough 91 at The Gabba in the series-deciding Test. Gill was given the Test team captaincy after Rohit Sharma retired from Test cricket in 2025.

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Shubman Gill T20I Career

Shubman Gill made his T20I debut against Sri Lanka in January 2023. He scored his maiden T20I century against New Zealand in February 2023.

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Shubman Gill Captaincy

Shubman Gill is the current captain of the Indian Test Cricket team and the Gujarat Giants in the IPL.

Shubman Gill Under-19 Career

His international debut for the U-19 Indian cricket team came against England U-19 at the age of 17, where he hit two back-to-back centuries. After impressing domestically and internationally, he was selected and appointed as the vice-captain of the India U19 team in December 2017 for the 2018 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Shubman shone in the World Cup, hitting 372 runs from five innings and finishing second in the rankings. In the Group B match against Zimbabwe, Gill scored an unbeaten 90 runs from 59 balls as India beat Zimbabwe by 10 wickets. The quarter-final saw him hitting 86 off 94 balls with India beating Bangladesh by 113 runs.

He scored a century in the semi-final against arch-rivals Pakistan, hitting a blazing unbeaten 102 from 94 balls. India won by 203 runs, with Gill winning the Man of the Match award. In the finals against Australia, he scored 31 runs from 30 balls, helping India clinch an eight-wicket victory and winning the U19 World Cup for a record fourth time. Eventually, Gill won the Player of the Tournament award for scoring 418 runs at a whopping average of 104.50.

Shubman Gill Family

Shubman Gill was born to Lakhwinder Singh and Keart Gill on September 8, 1999, in Firozpur, Punjab. He also has an elder sister named Shahneel Singh.

Shubman Gill's Salary

Shubman Gill's IPL salary for the 2025 season was 16.5 crores (INR). Due to his Grade A classification, Shubman Gill's BCCI remuneration for the 2024–25 contract period, which continues into 2025, is ₹5 crore per year. His match fees, which are ₹15 lakh for a Test match, ₹6 lakh for an ODI, and ₹3 lakh for a T20I match, are not included in this yearly retainer.

Shubman Gill House

Shubman Gill owns a luxurious house in Jaimal Singh Wala Village, Jalalabad Tehsil, Firozpur District, Punjab, India.

Shubman Gill Cars

Shubman Gill owns a Mahindra Thar, a Mercedes-Benz E350, and a Range Rover SUV.