IND vs Eng Test Series 2025: Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, the Indian cricket team will play the first Test against England from June 20, for which the team has started preparing in England. In the unofficial Test against England Lions, there were many players in India’s A team which are included in the Test squad. These players have shown a strong performance and 4 of them are replaced by players in Playing 11.

A total of 7 players were playing against England Lions, who are part of the upcoming Test series. He had a good chance of preparations, which he also redeemed. At the same time, there was an opportunity for other players to show their talent. Now Shubman Gill and Team India A will play a practice match, before that 7 players playing for India A have joined the Indian squad. These include KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Nitish Reddy, Karun Nair, Abhimanyu Ishwar, Shardul Thakur and Dhruv Jurlel.

Karun Nair’s return possible

Karun Nair is the batsman who has scored a triple century against England. This is the biggest score against England by any Indian. He can return after 8 years by joining the playing of the first Test. He can play in place of Kohli i.e. at number four. In the first Test against England Lions, he played a brilliant innings of 204 runs. Scored 40 and 15 runs respectively in the first and second innings of the second Test.

KL Rahul’s brilliant century

Wicket -keeper batsmen were not included in India’s A team, but after their IPL team’s early journey ended, he requested the BCCI to include it in it. In the first innings of the second match, he scored a century (116), he scored a half -century in the second innings.

Yashasvi Jaiswal

Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 24 and 64 runs in the first Test. In the second Test, he scored 17 and 5 runs. Of course, his bat did not run in both these Tests, but his efforts would have been to mold themselves under the circumstances of England. He is an aggressive batsman and his record against England has also been good. He can start the innings with Shubman Gill.

Shardul Thakur can get a chance

One of Shardul Thakur and Nitish Reddy can find a place in the playing 11, although the performance of both of them is not special for India A but Shardul Thakur may get attention. Nitish Reddy took 2 wickets in 2 Tests, scored 135 runs in 4 innings. Shardul was able to score only 80 runs in 3 innings, 2 in the first match and he did not get any wicket in the second match. But Shardul can be placed in playing 11 based on the previous performance.

IND vs Eng Test Series 2025: The Indian cricket team left for England this morning for England tour. The team left from Mumbai was wearing a new kit. After Rohit-Virat’s retirement, this will be the team’s first Test series under the captaincy of Shubman Gill. In England, the team will set up a 10-day training camp, play an intra-voice match. The first Test will start from June 20. Many players including KL Rahul are already present in England.

The Indian team could not make it to the final of the World Test Championship 2025. In this, the title collision will be between South Africa and Australia from June 11. England tour will be Team India’s first series in the new WTC Chakra (WTC 2025-27).

England-Bound & !#Teamindia , #ENGVIND pic.twitter.com/b3kbfhq9i4

– BCCI (@Bcci) June 5, 2025

Last year, India lost the domestic Test series against New Zealand, after which it also suffered defeat in Australia. The team’s previous performance in Test cricket has not been good, and now a team is in England which has many young players. There are many challenges for captain Shubman Gill. However, those confidences were seen in the press conference held before leaving for England.

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– BCCI (@Bcci) June 5, 2025

Players were seen having fun

During this, Kuldeep Yadav was seen having fun. Kuldeep got engaged a few days ago. Rishabh Pant’s funny conversation with the cameraman also went viral. In which he is joking about Rohit Sharma.

Question – Where is Rohit Sharma?

Rishabh Pant – Rohit Bhai Garden Mein Ghum Rahe Hain, Unke Garden Ki Yaad to Aayegi (He’s Enjoying in the Garden, Will Miss His Garden).pic.twitter.com/a5x4tlayyq

– Mufaddal Vohra (@Mufaddal_vohra) June 6, 2025

Indian test squad

Shubman Gill (Captain), Rishabh Pant (Vice -captain and wicketkeeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanyu Ishwar, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurlel (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep, Kuldeep, Kuldeep, Kuldeep, Kuldeep Yadav

England’s squad for the first test

Ben Stokes, Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethle, Harry Brook, Bridon Cars, Sam Cook, Jack Croly, Ben Docket, Jamie Overton, Oli Pope, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Josh Tung, Chris Woakes.