New Delhi: The Indian cricket team has been announced for the England tour. Now, the command of the International Test Captain of the Indian Cricket Team has been handed over to Shubman Gill. This is considered to be a big decision of the BCCI. Shubman Gill is known for his excellent batting among the young. It has also been officially announced at the BCCI meeting.
The Indian cricket team has to play 5 Test matches on the England tour, where the first match will be played from June 20. Making a big announcement, the BCCI has also announced the 18-member team. Rishabh Pant has been given the command as the vice-captain. Shardul Thakur has also returned for this tour.
Gill became the 5th youngest captain.
Speculations were already being made about Shubman Gill being made the captain.On Saturday, BCCI officials gave the fans great news by approving the name of Shubman Gill as the Test captain. Gill will be the 5th youngest captain in Tests. He is 25 years and 258 days old. Before him are Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (21 years, 77 days), Sachin Tendulkar (23 years, 169 days), Kapil Dev (24 years, 48 days) and Ravi Shastri (25 years, 229 days).
18-member team for England tour
Batters- Shubman Gill (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair.
Wicketkeeper batsman
Rishabh Pant (vice-captain), Dhruv Jurel.
Pace bowling all-rounder
Nitish Reddy, Shardul Thakur.
Spin bowling all-rounder
Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar.
Fast bowlers
Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh. Kuldeep Yadav.
Rohit-Kohli have retired
For information, let us tell you that the Indian team’s hitma,n Rohit Sharm,a has also announced retirement from the Test format. Earlier, he had said goodbye to international T20. Virat Kohli also recently surprised everyone by retiring from the Test format. Since then, thehave beenere speculations about giving the new captain and other players a chance. Kohli has already retired from T20 as well. Rohit and Kohli will continue to play at the international ODI level.