Shubman Gill of India did not bat in its second innings against South Africa in the just concluded test at Eden Gardens and the India’s second innings score card read – “Shubman Gill – absent” to provide the 170^th occasion of a batsman absent in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Absent	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	AC Bannerman	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Adelaide	12 Dec 1884
2	H Moses	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Sydney	29 Jan 1892
3	WH Lockwood	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Sydney	01 Feb 1895
4	WH Lockwood	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Sydney	01 Feb 1895
5	J Briggs	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Leeds	29 Jun 1899
6	SF Barnes	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Adelaide	17 Jan 1902
7	RE Foster	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Melbourne	01 Jan 1904
8	TW Hayward	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Melbourne	05 Mar 1904
9	VT Trumper	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Nottingham	29 May 1905
10	GL Jessop	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Leeds	01 Jul 1909
11	GL Jessop	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Leeds	01 Jul 1909
12	CB Llewellyn	Absent	SAF	v Aus	Melbourne	17 Feb 1911
13	JW Hearne	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Melbourne	31 Dec 1920
14	JW Hearne	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Melbourne	31 Dec 1920
15	JB Hobbs	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Leeds	02 Jul 1921
16	JB Hobbs	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Leeds	02 Jul 1921
17	WVS Ling	Absent	SAF	v Eng	Durban	18 Jan 1923
18	JM Gregory	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Brisbane	30 Nov 1928
19	JM Gregory	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Brisbane	30 Nov 1928
20	C Kelleway	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Brisbane	30 Nov 1928
21	WH Ponsford	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Sydney	14 Dec 1928
22	EL Bartlett	Absent	Win	v Aus	Sydney	01 Jan 1931
23	EL Bartlett	Absent	Win	v Aus	Sydney	01 Jan 1931
24	G Duckworth	Absent	Eng	v SAF	Cape Town	01 Jan 1931
25	DG Bradman	Absent	Aus	v SAF	Melbourne	12 Feb 1932
26	WAS Oldfield	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Adelaide	13 Jan 1933
27	HG Vivian	Absent	NZl	v Eng	Christchurch	24 Mar 1933
28	GG Macaulay	Absent	Eng	v Win	Manchester	22 Jul 1933
29	Naoomal Jaoomal	Absent	Ind	v Eng	Chennai	10 Feb 1934
30	WE Bowes	Absent	Eng	v Aus	The Oval	18 Aug 1934
31	LEG Ames	Absent	Eng	v Aus	The Oval	18 Aug 1934
32	RES Wyatt	Absent	Eng	v Win	Kingston	14 Mar 1935
33	EL McCormick	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Brisbane	04 Dec 1936
34	CL Badcock	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Sydney	18 Dec 1936
35	ML Page	Absent	NZl	v Eng	The Oval	14 Aug 1937
36	DG Bradman	Absent	Aus	v Eng	The Oval	20 Aug 1938
37	JHW Fingleton	Absent	Aus	v Eng	The Oval	20 Aug 1938
38	DG Bradman	Absent	Aus	v Eng	The Oval	20 Aug 1938
39	JHW Fingleton	Absent	Aus	v Eng	The Oval	20 Aug 1938
40	L Hutton	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Sydney	28 Feb 1947
41	PK Sen	Absent	Ind	v Win	Brabourne	04 Feb 1949
42	DVP Wright	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Sydney	05 Jan 1951
43	FR Brown	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Adelaide	02 Feb 1951
44	AD Nourse	Absent	SAF	v Eng	Nottingham	07 Jun 1951
45	HJ Tayfield	Absent	SAF	v Aus	Sydney	09 Jan 1953
46	DK Gaekwad	Absent	Ind	v Win	Bridgetown	07 Feb 1953
47	RH Shodhan	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	28 Mar 1953
48	WA Johnston	Absent	Aus	v Win	Georgetown	26 Apr 1955
49	JA Hayes	Absent	NZl	v Ind	Chennai	06 Jan 1956
50	JA Hayes	Absent	NZl	v Ind	Chennai	06 Jan 1956
51	FM King	Absent	Win	v NZl	Dunedin	03 Feb 1956
52	AK Davidson	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Nottingham	07 Jun 1956
53	JDC Goddard	Absent	Win	v Eng	The Oval	22 Aug 1957
54	JDC Goddard	Absent	Win	v Eng	The Oval	22 Aug 1957
55	Nasim-ul-Ghani	Absent	Pak	v Win	Kingston	26 Feb 1958
56	Mahmood Hussain	Absent	Pak	v Win	Kingston	26 Feb 1958
57	MH Mankad	Absent	Ind	v Win	Chennai	21 Jan 1959
58	PR Umrigar	Absent	Ind	v Win	Delhi	06 Feb 1959
59	CG Borde	Absent	Ind	v Eng	Nottingham	04 Jun 1959
60	GF Rorke	Absent	Aus	v Ind	Kanpur	19 Dec 1959
61	MJ Stewart	Absent	Eng	v Ind	Brabourne	21 Jan 1964
62	NCL O’Neill	Absent	Aus	v Ind	Brabourne	10 Oct 1964
63	NCL O’Neill	Absent	Aus	v Ind	Brabourne	10 Oct 1964
64	JH Edrich	Absent	Eng	v NZl	Auckland	11 Mar 1966
65	DN Sardesai	Absent	Ind	v Eng	Lord’s	22 Jun 1967
66	JN Shepherd	Absent	Win	v Eng	Leeds	10 Jul 1969
67	BS Bedi	Absent	Ind	v Aus	Chennai	24 Dec 1969
68	Pervez Sajjad	Absent	Pak	v Eng	Lord’s	17 Jun 1971
69	N Gifford	Absent	Eng	v Ind	Kanpur	25 Jan 1973
70	JM Parker	Absent	NZl	v Pak	Wellington	02 Feb 1973
71	LG Rowe	Absent	Win	v Aus	Port of Spain	23 Mar 1973
72	LG Rowe	Absent	Win	v Aus	Port of Spain	23 Mar 1973
73	GM Turner	Absent	NZl	v Aus	Melbourne	29 Dec 1973
74	BS Chandrasekhar	Absent	Ind	v Eng	Lord’s	20 Jun 1974
75	MAK Pataudi	Absent	Ind	v Win	Bengaluru	22 Nov 1974
76	FM Engineer	Absent	Ind	v Win	Bengaluru	22 Nov 1974
77	SM Gavaskar	Absent	Ind	v NZl	Wellington	13 Feb 1976
78	EAS Prasanna	Absent	Ind	v Win	Bridgetown	10 Mar 1976
79	BS Bedi	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
80	BP Patel	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
81	AD Gaekwad	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
82	BS Chandrasekhar	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
83	GR Viswanath	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
84	JR Thomson	Absent	Aus	v Pak	Adelaide	24 Dec 1976
85	VA Holder	Absent	Win	v Pak	Bridgetown	18 Feb 1977
86	PM Toohey	Absent	Aus	v Win	Port of Spain	03 Mar 1978
87	CH Lloyd	Absent	Win	v Eng	The Oval	24 Jul 1980
88	NS Yadav	Absent	Ind	v Aus	Melbourne	07 Feb 1981
89	SM Gavaskar	Absent	Ind	v Eng	The Oval	08 Jul 1982
90	RL Dias	Absent	Srl	v NZl	Colombo (CCC)	24 Mar 1984
91	SB Smith	Absent	Aus	v Win	Kingston	28 Apr 1984
92	TA Lloyd	Absent	Eng	v Win	Birmingham	14 Jun 1984
93	VP Terry	Absent	Eng	v Win	Manchester	26 Jul 1984
94	JV Coney	Absent	NZl	v Win	Kingston	04 May 1985
95	GF Lawson	Absent	Aus	v Win	Perth	02 Dec 1988
96	IT Botham	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Nottingham	10 Aug 1989
97	NS Sidhu	Absent	Ind	v NZl	Christchurch	02 Feb 1990
98	RS Mahanama	Absent	Srl	v NZl	Wellington	31 Jan 1991
99	MW Pringle	Absent	SAF	v Ind	Johannesburg	26 Nov 1992
100	KR Rutherford	Absent	NZl	v Srl	Dunedin	18 Mar 1995
101	AJ Stewart	Absent	Eng	v Win	Birmingham	06 Jul 1995
102	Saleem Malik	Absent	Pak	v Aus	Brisbane	09 Nov 1995
103	SK Warne	Absent	Aus	v Pak	Hobart	17 Nov 1995
104	V Rathour	Absent	Ind	v Eng	Nottingham	04 Jul 1996
105	J Srinath	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 1997
106	FA Rose	Absent	Win	v Ind	St John’s	04 Apr 1997
107	HP Tillakaratne	Absent	Srl	v Win	St John’s	13 Jun 1997
108	WPUJC Vaas	Absent	Srl	v Zim	Colombo (SSC)	14 Jan 1998
109	N Hussain	Absent	Eng	v NZl	Lord’s	22 Jul 1999
110	SR Waugh	Absent	Aus	v Srl	Kandy	09 Sep 1999
111	JN Gillespie	Absent	Aus	v Srl	Kandy	09 Sep 1999
112	D Ganga	Absent	Win	v NZl	Wellington	26 Dec 1999
113	D Ganga	Absent	Win	v NZl	Wellington	26 Dec 1999
114	R Vijay Bharadwaj	Absent	Ind	v Aus	Sydney	02 Jan 2000
115	A Flintoff	Absent	Eng	v SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 2000
116	NR Mongia	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Bengaluru	02 Mar 2000
117	HH Streak	Absent	Zim	v Win	Kingston	24 Mar 2000
118	Khaled Mashud	Absent	Ban	v Zim	Bulawayo	19 Apr 2001
119	SV Carlisle	Absent	Zim	v Win	Bulawayo	19 Jul 2001
120	J Srinath	Absent	Ind	v Srl	Galle	14 Aug 2001
121	M Muralidaran	Absent	Srl	v Eng	Birmingham	30 May 2002
122	SP Jones	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Brisbane	07 Nov 2002
123	SP Jones	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Brisbane	07 Nov 2002
124	CEW Silverwood	Absent	Eng	v Aus	Perth	29 Nov 2002
125	Mashrafe Mortaza	Absent	Ban	v Eng	Chattogram	29 Oct 2003
126	DL Vettori	Absent	NZl	v Eng	Leeds	03 Jun 2004
127	DR Smith	Absent	Win	v Eng	The Oval	19 Aug 2004
128	ST Jayasuriya	Absent	Srl	v Pak	Kandy	03 Apr 2006
129	RR Sarwan	Absent	Win	v Eng	Leeds	25 May 2007
130	RR Sarwan	Absent	Win	v Eng	Leeds	25 May 2007
131	SE Bond	Absent	NZl	v SAF	Johannesburg	08 Nov 2007
132	CD Cumming	Absent	NZl	v SAF	Centurion	16 Nov 2007
133	S Chanderpaul	Absent	Win	v SAF	Durban	10 Jan 2008
134	Tamim Iqbal	Absent	Ban	v NZl	Wellington	12 Jan 2008
135	Aftab Ahmed	Absent	Ban	v SAF	Chattogram	29 Feb 2008
136	DR Flynn	Absent	NZl	v Eng	Manchester	23 May 2008
137	PL Harris	Absent	SAF	v Ban	Bloemfontein	19 Nov 2008
138	GC Smith	Absent	SAF	v Aus	Durban	06 Mar 2009
139	RJ Harris	Absent	Aus	v Eng	Melbourne	26 Dec 2010
140	Rubel Hossain	Absent	Ban	v Pak	Chattogram	09 Dec 2011
141	JP Duminy	Absent	SAF	v Aus	Brisbane	09 Nov 2012
142	HAPW Jayawardene	Absent	Srl	v Aus	Melbourne	26 Dec 2012
143	UWMBCA Welegedara	Absent	Srl	v Aus	Melbourne	26 Dec 2012
144	Zulfiqar Babar	Absent	Pak	v SAF	Dubai (DICS)	23 Oct 2013
145	Junaid Khan	Absent	Pak	v Srl	Colombo (SSC)	14 Aug 2014
146	KAJ Roach	Absent	Win	v SAF	Centurion	17 Dec 2014
147	KAJ Roach	Absent	Win	v SAF	Centurion	17 Dec 2014
148	Shahadat Hossain	Absent	Ban	v Pak	Mirpur	06 May 2015
149	Shahadat Hossain	Absent	Ban	v Pak	Mirpur	06 May 2015
150	ST Gabriel	Absent	Win	v Aus	Hobart	10 Dec 2015
151	ST Gabriel	Absent	Win	v Aus	Hobart	10 Dec 2015
152	DAS Gunaratne	Absent	Srl	v Ind	Galle	26 Jul 2017
153	HMRKB Herath	Absent	Srl	v Ind	Galle	26 Jul 2017
154	DAS Gunaratne	Absent	Srl	v Ind	Galle	26 Jul 2017
155	UT Khawaja	Absent	Aus	v Pak	Abu Dhabi	16 Oct 2018
156	TL Chatara	Absent	Zim	v Ban	Mirpur	11 Nov 2018
157	TL Chatara	Absent	Zim	v Ban	Mirpur	11 Nov 2018
158	CBRLS Kumara	Absent	Srl	v Aus	Brisbane	24 Jan 2019
159	L Embuldeniya	Absent	Srl	v SAF	Gqeberha	21 Feb 2019
160	TA Boult	Absent	NZl	v Aus	Melbourne	26 Dec 2019
161	MJ Henry	Absent	NZl	v Aus	Sydney	03 Jan 2020
162	SO Dowrich	Absent	Win	v NZl	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020
163	SO Dowrich	Absent	Win	v NZl	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020
164	DM de Silva	Absent	Srl	v SAF	Centurion	26 Dec 2020
165	PS Masvaure	Absent	Zim	v Pak	Harare	29 Apr 2021
166	RL Chase	Absent	Win	v SAF	Gros Islet	18 Jun 2021
167	SS Iyer	Absent	Ind	v Aus	Ahmedabad	09 Mar 2023
168	T Bavuma	Absent	SAF	v Ind	Centurion	26 Dec 2023
169	Abrar Ahmed	Absent	Pak	v Eng	Multan	07 Oct 2024
170	Shubman Gill	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Eden Gardens	11 Nov 2025

It also provides the 16^th occasion of a batsman absent in a test innings against South Africa. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Absent	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	G Duckworth	Absent	Eng	v SAF	Cape Town	01 Jan 1931
2	DG Bradman	Absent	Aus	v SAF	Melbourne	12 Feb 1932
3	J Srinath	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 1997
4	A Flintoff	Absent	Eng	v SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 2000
5	NR Mongia	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Bengaluru	02 Mar 2000
6	SE Bond	Absent	NZl	v SAF	Johannesburg	08 Nov 2007
7	CD Cumming	Absent	NZl	v SAF	Centurion	16 Nov 2007
8	S Chanderpaul	Absent	Win	v SAF	Durban	10 Jan 2008
9	Aftab Ahmed	Absent	Ban	v SAF	Chattogram	29 Feb 2008
10	Zulfiqar Babar	Absent	Pak	v SAF	Dubai (DICS)	23 Oct 2013
11	KAJ Roach	Absent	Win	v SAF	Centurion	17 Dec 2014
12	KAJ Roach	Absent	Win	v SAF	Centurion	17 Dec 2014
13	L Embuldeniya	Absent	Srl	v SAF	Gqeberha	21 Feb 2019
14	DM de Silva	Absent	Srl	v SAF	Centurion	26 Dec 2020
15	RL Chase	Absent	Win	v SAF	Gros Islet	18 Jun 2021
16	Shubman Gill	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Eden Gardens	11 Nov 2025

It also provides the 17^th occasion of an Indian batsman absent in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Absent	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	PK Sen	Absent	Ind	v Win	Brabourne	04 Feb 1949
2	DK Gaekwad	Absent	Ind	v Win	Bridgetown	07 Feb 1953
3	RH Shodhan	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	28 Mar 1953
4	MH Mankad	Absent	Ind	v Win	Chennai	21 Jan 1959
5	PR Umrigar	Absent	Ind	v Win	Delhi	06 Feb 1959
6	MAK Pataudi	Absent	Ind	v Win	Bengaluru	22 Nov 1974
7	FM Engineer	Absent	Ind	v Win	Bengaluru	22 Nov 1974
8	EAS Prasanna	Absent	Ind	v Win	Bridgetown	10 Mar 1976
9	BS Bedi	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
10	BP Patel	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
11	AD Gaekwad	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
12	BS Chandrasekhar	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
13	GR Viswanath	Absent	Ind	v Win	Kingston	21 Apr 1976
14	J Srinath	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 1997
15	NR Mongia	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Bengaluru	02 Mar 2000
16	J Srinath	Absent	Ind	v Srl	Galle	14 Aug 2001
17	Shubman Gill	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Eden Gardens	11 Nov 2025

It also provides the third occasion of an Indian batsman absent in a test innings against South Africa. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Absent	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	J Srinath	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 1997
2	NR Mongia	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Bengaluru	02 Mar 2000
3	Shubman Gill	Absent	Ind	v SAF	Eden Gardens	11 Nov 2025