Shubman Gill Captaincy Record
India & IPL · 2024-Present
Career snapshot
Int’l Matches
14 winsIPL Matches
24 winsICC Titles
—IPL Titles
—Format-wise record
| Format | Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | NR | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 2025-2026 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 61.11% |
| ODI | 2025-2026 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 55.56% |
| T20I | 2024-2024 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 80.00% |
| Overall (Int’l) | 2024-Present | 23 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 63.04% |
| IPL (Gujarat Titans) | 2024-Present | 43 | 24 | 19 | 0 | — | 0 | 55.81% |
Notable Achievements
- Youngest captain to win overseasShubman Gill became the youngest Indian captain to win a Test match overseas when India beat England in 2025
- 2025 England seriesLed India to a 2-2 draw on his first assignment as full-time Test captain, sealed by a 6-run win at The Oval
- Player of the SeriesJoint winner (with Harry Brook), England 2025
- Captain’s highest scoreDouble century at Edgbaston, surpassing Virat Kohli’s record for the highest individual score by an Indian Test captain
India captaincy
Tests
Gill took over the Test job in mid-2025 after Rohit Sharma retired from the format, and the timing could have gone badly for him. His batting only got sharper under the extra weight. His first series as captain, the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy in England, ended 2-2, but he scored 754 runs along the way, including 269 and 161 in the same Edgbaston Test, a combined 430 that’s the highest match tally by an Indian in Test history. He also became the first Asian captain to win a Test at Edgbaston.
Shubman followed that with a 1-0 home series win over West Indies, then hit trouble: South Africa toured India in November 2025 and beat them in Kolkata, a match Gill was captaining when a neck spasm forced him off the field after facing three balls. He didn’t recover in time for the second Test in Guwahati, which Rishabh Pant led in his place, and South Africa closed out a 2-0 series win. Gill was sidelined for close to two months.
He came back in June 2026 and flattened Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs in a one-off Test, not part of the World Test Championship cycle but a statement all the same. As things stand he’s led India in nine Tests: five wins, three losses, one draw, with six centuries in fifteen innings and an average north of 82, second only to Bradman among captains with 1,000-plus Test runs.
ODIs
Rohit handed him the ODI captaincy too, in October 2025, ahead of a three-match series in Australia, with the explicit goal of letting Gill settle into the role well before the 2027 World Cup. It didn’t start well. Australia won the first two games to take the series before India got a dead-rubber win in the third, Gill’s first as ODI captain, for whatever that was worth.
Then the neck injury in Kolkata ruled him out of the South African ODI leg entirely, and KL Rahul filled in. Gill was vice-captain of the ODI side that won the 2025 Champions Trophy under Rohit, so his ledger as the man actually holding the job is thin so far: one series, lost 2-1.
T20Is
Gill has captained India in T20Is before, briefly. He led a young side to a 4-1 win over Zimbabwe in July 2024, his first assignment in the format, and later served as vice-captain through parts of 2025. He was dropped as vice-captain ahead of the 2026 T20 World Cup and left out of India’s squad entirely for that tournament, and he wasn’t picked for the T20I tours that followed either. Whatever Gill’s future in Indian cricket looks like, T20Is aren’t currently part of it.
IPL captaincy
Gujarat Titans, 2024-2025
Gill took over Gujarat Titans in late 2023, after Hardik Pandya left for Mumbai Indians, and his first season in charge was a step backwards for the franchise: GT missed the playoffs entirely, finishing eighth in 2024, the only time that’s happened in the team’s history. That same season, he scored the 100th century in IPL history. The following year, GT recovered, finishing third in the league stage and reaching the eliminator, where they lost to Mumbai Indians by 20 runs.
Gujarat Titans, 2026
IPL 2026 was Gill’s best season as captain by results. GT finished second in the league stage, lost Qualifier 1 to Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 92 runs, then beat Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 to set up a final against RCB, the defending champions. They lost by five wickets. It’s the second final GT have lost, after falling to Chennai Super Kings in a rain-affected 2023 final under Hardik Pandya. Gill scored his fifth IPL century somewhere in that run, adding to the one he made in 2024. He’s now taken Gujarat to one final himself, in 2026, and lost it.
Across three formats and one IPL franchise, Gill is carrying more captaincy weight at 26 than most Indian cricketers do at any age, and the results have been genuinely mixed: a Test record that looks excellent on paper but includes a series where he only played half of it, an ODI tenure that’s one series old, and an IPL captaincy defined so far by getting Gujarat back to a final it couldn’t win. The batting has held up through all of it. Whether the results catch up is still an open question.
FAQs on Shubman Gill
Shubman Gill was officially named India’s Test captain in May 2025, succeeding Rohit Sharma ahead of the five-match Test series against England. Following that transition, his leadership role expanded further to make him India’s full-time captain in both the Test and ODI formats.
Before taking over the full-time Test and ODI leadership, Gill’s first major international captaincy assignment came in July 2024, when he led a young Indian squad to a dominant 4-1 T20I series victory against Zimbabwe. Since his promotion to multi-format captaincy, he has been tasked with anchoring the national squad’s long-term transition.
Gill was handed the reins of the Gujarat Titans ahead of the 2024 season. Under his leadership, the franchise underwent a steady build, culminating in a successful third-place finish during the 2025 season. He continues to front the team as their primary anchor and leader through the 2026 season.
During the 2026 IPL season, Gill joined legends Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli in an elite bracket of batters who have scored 500-plus runs in multiple seasons while serving as a franchise captain. He crossed this milestone back-to-back, scoring 650 runs as skipper in 2025 and repeating the 500-plus run feat in 2026.
In November 2019, while leading India C in the Deodhar Trophy, Gill became the youngest cricketer to ever captain a team in the tournament’s final. At just 20 years and 57 days old, he surpassed the previous record set by Virat Kohli, who was 21 years and 124 days old during the 2009–10 edition.
