Shubman Gill Named India’s New Test Captain, Succeeds Rohit Sharma

Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India has announced the new Test captain of Team India. Team India's selection committee chief and former Indian all-rounder Ajit Agarkar, while taking a press conference in Mumbai, announced Shubman Gill as the new captain of India. Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant were also in the race for captaincy, but the team management, head coach and selectors have expressed confidence in this young man. He will be seen handling Rohit Sharma's glorious legacy in England. The Indian team has to play a five-match Test series on the England tour, which will start from June 20 at the Leeds Cricket Stadium.

At around 12:30, Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Devjit Saikia, Indian team selectors Ajay Ratra, Subrata Banerjee and Ajit Agarkar arrived for the meeting. It is noteworthy that Rohit Sharma suddenly said goodbye to Test cricket on May 7. It was believed that he would play in the series against England, but he wrote an emotional message on Instagram and announced his decision. A few days later, when Virat Kohli also decided to retire, people were surprised.

Ajit Agarkar announced the name of the captain and said that Shubman Gill will be the captain of the team and Rishabh Pant is the vice-captain of the team. Along with this, he said that I do not think Jasprit Bumrah will be available for all the matches. Regarding Virat Kohli's retirement, the chief selector said that he had told about retirement in April itself. At the same time, regarding not selecting Shami, he said - Shami has had an MRI. He is not fully fit.

Indian Cricket Team for England Tour

Rishabh Pant (Vice Captain)

Shubman Gill (Captain)

Yashasvi Jaiswal

KL Rahul

Sai Sudarshan

Abhimanyu Easwaran

Karun Nair

Nitish Reddy

Ravindra Jadeja

Dhruv Jurel

Washington Sundar

Shardul Thakur

Jasprit Bumrah

Mohammed Siraj

Prasidh Krishna

Arshdeep Singh

Akash Deep

Kuldeep Yadav

India vs England Test Series Schedule

June 13: India vs India-A at Beckenham

June 20: India vs England at Leeds

July 2: India vs England at Birmingham

July 10: India vs England at Lord's

July 23: India vs England at Manchester

July 31: India vs England at The Oval