You deserve all of this: Virat Kohli on Shubman Gill "rewriting history"
Birmingham, Jul 5 (PTI): Former India Test captain Virat Kohli on Saturday lauded “star boy” Shubman Gill for "rewriting history" against England, saying that he deserves "all of this”.
Gill brought up his second consecutive century and third of the ongoing tour of England while crossing the 500-run aggregate in only fourth innings of the five-match series on Saturday.
The 25-year-old captain struck 13 fours and eight sixes to make 161 off 162 balls, following up his first-innings’ 269 to become only the second Indian after legendary Sunil Gavaskar to have scored a double century and a ton in a Test.
“Well played star boy. Rewriting history. Onwards and upwards from here. You deserve all of this,” wrote Kohli, who retired from Test cricket a month before the England tour and is now settled in London.
Gill amassed 430 runs in the two innings of the second Test, which is also the second highest aggregate ever from a batter in a match following Graham Gooch’s 456 runs (333 and 123) against India at Lord’s in 1990.
India set a mammoth target of 608 runs in the second Test after Gill’s century and fifties from KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja, declaring their second innings at 427 for six in the final session on Day Four.
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar takes oath as Rajya Sabha member
New Delhi (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday took oath as a member of Rajya Sabha, marking the end of his two-decade rule in the eastern state and paving the way for a new chief minister.
The oath was administered by Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan in his chamber at a brief ceremony. The Chairman later welcomed him as a member of the Upper House and also on his return in Parliament.
Kumar took the oath in Hindi in the presence of Union Minister J P Nadda, who is also leader of the house, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Panchayati Raj Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ram Nath Thakur and Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal.
Bihar deputy chief minister Samrat Chaudhary was also present at the oath-taking.
JDU leader and party's working president Sanjay Kumar Jha, Congress chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh, besides BJP MP and former union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy and BJP chief whip in Lok Sabha Sanjay Jaiswal, were among those present during the oath-taking.
"Vice President of India and Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan, administered the oath to Shri Nitish Kumar as an elected Member of Rajya Sabha, from Bihar, at Parliament House today," the Vice President's office said on X, while sharing pictures of the oath-taking.
After the oath-taking, Kumar came out of the new Parliament building and spoke about the time he was a member of the Lok Sabha and sat in the old Parliament building.
As Kumar assumes the Rajya Sabha role, it marks the end of his long two-decade rule in Bihar. Kumar will soon resign as chief minister and the NDA is likely to elect a new chief minister of Bihar on April 14.
He has already resigned as a member of the State Legislative Council on March 30 after he was elected to Rajya Sabha.
The JD(U) supremo was elected to the Upper House of Parliament on March 16, and he had to quit as an MLC in the 14-day period after his election.
