This was a carnage waiting to be unleashed. A little over a week back, in Guwahati in the first ODI against Sri Lanka, Shubman Gill danced to 70. Three nights back, in the final game of that series in Thiruvananthapuram, he produced an effortless 116, his second ODI hundred. On being dismissed on both occasions, he walked off disappointed, maybe even a little disgusted, that he hadn’t gone on to bigger things.

On Wednesday afternoon at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, the right-handed opener took all his frustrations out on the No.1-ranked 50-over side in the world. Batting with the composure and assurance of someone in the middle of an excellent run and hungry for more, Gill uncorked a magnum opus on his way to becoming the youngest double-centurion in ODI history.