India Squad for England Tour 2025: The Test series of India and England is going to start from June 20. Team India has already been announced for the England Tour, in which captaincy has been handed over to Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant has been made the vice -captain of the Test team. Although the series will start from June 20, but now a senior player of Team India is going to leave for England before other members of the team. Here KL Rahul is talking about, who was going to leave for England on 6 June.
According to a report published in the Times of India, KL Rahul was scheduled to leave England on June 6 with the rest of the team. Rahul had demanded from BCCI that he should be given an opportunity to play in the second first-class match, India A vs England Lions starting on 6 June. His demand was accepted
KL Rahul wanted to prepare early for England Tour, but due to lack of weather in Mumbai and Bengaluru, he decided to go soon. Remind you that Rahul had done something similar on the Australian tour. He played the match for India A before the Border-Gavaskar Trophy started.
India A vs England Lions Scheduled
The first match of India A vs England Lions has started from 30 May. In this match, captain Abhimanyu Ishwaran and Yashasvi Jaiswal flopped, but Karun Nair and Sarfaraz Khan have impressed with strong batting. The second first-class match will start from 6 June, in which Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan and now KL Rahul can also be seen playing.
KL Rahul has a chance to create a record
KL Rahul has so far scored 955 runs in 13 matches against England in his Test career. As soon as he scored 45 runs in the upcoming series, he will become the 17th Indian batsman to complete 1,000 runs against England in the Test. Before them, 16 Indian batsmen including Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar and Saurao Ganguly have done this.
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