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Another clutch moment for Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan for Team India. Kishan has been in form for the side since his return, and Gill has been in form since the IPL 2026 season with the Gujarat Titans.
With two destructive, in-form batters in the middle, the Men in Blue disrupt the stats again in the ODIs. At the Ekana International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, the home team created a record against the visitors, Afghanistan.
Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan were firing all cylinders
Afghanistan started well with the ball, taking Yashasvi Jaiswal’s wicket early in the innings. After that, Team India completely captured the momentum. While Rohit Sharma was dismissed for 48, as the second batter to return to the pavilion, Shubman Gill found Ishan Kishan as his perfect batting partner for today’s game.
From both ends of the wicket, these two batters were firing all their cylinders. At one point in the first innings, Gill was looking unstoppable, but he concluded his knock after securing the 150-run mark. The India captain departed after scoring 154 off 110, and Ishan Kishan returned with 125 off 79.
List of highest totals scored by India in ODIs:
With two blistering centuries, both with strike rates over a hundred, it was obvious that India would register another 400-plus run total on the board in the format. The question was, how many runs are gonna put altogether? Losing all ten wickets, India scored 402 runs in 49.5 overs.
418/5 (50 overs) vs West Indies, Indore – 8 December 2011
414/7 (50 overs) vs Sri Lanka, Rajkot – 15 December 2009
413/5 (50 overs) vs Bermuda, Port of Spain – 19 March 2007
410/4 (50 overs) vs Netherlands, Bengaluru – 12 November 2023
409/8 (50 overs) vs Bangladesh, Chattogram – 10 December 2022
404/5 (50 overs) vs Sri Lanka, Eden Gardens – 13 November 2014
402 all out (49.5 overs) vs Afghanistan, Lucknow – 17 June 2026
Deprture of Jaiswal did not help the Afghanistan bowlers enough to reduce the run rate of India. In the first ten overs, when Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma were on the track, they scored runs at a strike rate of 8.00.
India dominated till the 40th over of the innings
The carnage the Men in Blue did mostly from the 11th to the 40th over of the period. It was the time when Gill and Ishan Kishan mostly shared the pitch. In 30 overs, the Indian cricket team accumulated 260 runs, in exchange for only a couple of wickets.
Afghanistan returned to the contest after the departure of Gill and Kishan. Run rate drops as soon as they return. In the last ten overs of the innings, the hosts claimed 62 runs only, for 7 wickets.
India innings progression
Overs 1-10: 80/1
Overs 11-40: 260/2
Overs 41-50: 62/7
Mammoth partnership between Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan
The way India was scoring runs, the middle through the partnership of Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan, they should have gathered more runs. For the third wicket, Gill and Kishan stitched a 224-run partnership today in Lucknow.
