The Indian cricket team will leave for Australia in a few days, where ODI and T20 series will be played. Fans of this series are eagerly waiting, because Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will also be seen playing in it. Team India has been announced for this tour, which includes Rohit but is not a captain. The BCCI has also appointed Shubman Gill as the captain of the ODI after the Test. Earlier, a dinner party has been kept at Gautam Gambhir’s house, although it has nothing to do with Gill’s captaincy or team selection.

Actually India vs West Indies second Test will be played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Head coach Gautam Gambhir’s house is in Delhi, due to this he has invited the players to eat at his house. According to media reports, all the players have been invited for this dinner party. This party will be before India vs West Indies second Test.

When will the party be?

According to the report, after finishing the practice session at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday, October 8, the entire team will go to Gautam Gambhir’s house dinner. The team captained by Shubman Gill defeated West Indies badly in the first Test played in Ahmedabad. Now if the second Test is also drawn, Team India will win the series.

When is India vs West Indies second Test?

The second Test between India and West Indies will be played from Friday 10 October. The match will be played at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium from 9:30 am. 35 Test matches have been played earlier on this venue, the first Test is being played here after 2 years.

The Test has been played between India and West Indies 7 times earlier at Arun Jaitley Stadium. 2 times the West Indies have defeated Team India, whereas only 1 time the Indian team has defeated the West Indies. The other 4 matches have ended at the draw.

Indian test squad

Shubman Gill (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Devdutt Padikkal, Dhruv Jurael (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja (Vice -captain), Washington Sundar, Jasington Sundar, Jaspreet Bumrah, Akshar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, N Jagadisan (wicketkeeper), Mohammed Sirraj, Kuldeep Yadav.

India vs West Indies will be played at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium from Thursday, 2 October. This is the first domestic Test series of Shubman Gill as a Test captain, before that under his captaincy, Team India was successful in finishing the Test series in England 2-2. Many big players like KL Rahul, Mohammad Siraj etc. are returning, which were not in the Asia Cup squad. Dhruv Jurlel can join the playing 11 as a wicket -keeper.

It is India’s second series and first domestic Test series in the World Test Championship 2025-27 cycle. The toss will be held at 9 am in the first match starting on Thursday, October 2, the first ball will be put at 9:30 am. The Narendra Modi stadium has black soil and red clay pitch.

India vs West Indies first Test Pitch Report

India vs West Indies first Test will be played on a red clay pitch at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium. There is a lot of cough on the pitch, which will be reduced before the match but still according to ESPNcricinfo report, it can remain up to 4 mm. There is a good bounce on the red earthen pitch, although it does not break this binding of the grass quickly and turns into a dusty pitch. The fast bowlers are expected to get more help here, but if the pitch becomes dusty then the spinners can get help.

The average score in the first innings at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium is 347. The average score in the second innings is 353. It can be a bit difficult to score runs in the third and fourth innings. There is also a possibility of rain in Ahmedabad on Saturday, this can change the stance of the pitch.

Team India can land with 3 main fast bowlers in the first Test, Kuldeep Yadav can get a place as a spinner. Washington Sundar, Rabindra Jadeja may be included in 2 all -rounders playing 11.

India’s possible playing 11

Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill, Dhruv Juril (wicket -keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, famous Krishna, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj.

Indian squad

Devdutt Padikkal, Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Akshar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurlel (wicket keeper), KL Rahul (wicket keeper), Narayan Jagadisin (wicket keeper), Jaspreet Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, famous Krishna.

West Indies squad

Elik Ethanaz, Brandon King, John Campbell, Kevalon Anderson, Tejnarayan Chandrapaul, Johan Leyne, Justin Greaves, Khari Pierre, Roston Chase (captain), Shai Hope (wicket keeper), Tevin Imlach (wicket keeper), Anderson Philip, Zedia Celes, Zedia Bleds, Zool Warikan.

In the Asia Cup 2025 Super-4, India defeated Pakistan, after which former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi also praised the Indian players. Afridi said that Team India is a world class team, everything is perfect. Afridi even said that if the Indian team was playing, would 172 have made it to be 200, if they were 200, they would have made it.

After the match on Sama TV of Pakistan, Afridi said, “India is set to talk about the match. His attitude, mindset, his batting, his bowling, will not say today’s fielding, but India is a balance and a team of big matches in every context.”

Talking about Pakistan’s mistakes, Shahid Afridi said, “There was a time when I started to think that Pakistan would make it by 190. But if you scored 12 runs in 18 balls after 15 overs, which has also hit a six, then it is a matter of concern that we made a mistake there. But there is no stone line that Shaheen has to put 2 overs, you can change.”

Shahid Afridi praised Indian players

Afridi further said, the Indian team is wonderful. I think if he had a target of 200 runs, he would have made it comfortably. Other people sitting on this channel of Pakistan also praised Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill. Both shared a 105 -run partnership for the first wicket.

Mohammad Yusuf told where the Pakistan team lost the match. He said that there were 2 wickets in 10 overs and runs were close to 100, but then they are scoring 20-22 runs in the next 15 overs. We lost the match there. He told Hussain Talat responsible for this, who came at number four and was dismissed by Kuldeep Yadav by scoring 10 runs.

Mohammad Yusuf praised Abhishek Sharma

Yusuf further said, “See there (in India) every boy comes in the team. Abhishek Sharma is also a new boy, how is playing. He has played great cricket. Because the target of 172 in the pressure game is not short.”

Have Gautam Gambhir proved to be good head coaches or not? Talking about white ball matches, yes, Gambhir’s strategies have been in favor of Team India. At the same time, the performance of their under Indian team in Test format is mixed. After drawing a Test series against England, Gautam Gambhir’s face was seen full of confidence. Let us tell you that Gambhir will remain Indian coach till 2027 ODI World Cup and he has taken some tough decisions in the first year.

Talking about the big tournaments coming in the next 2 years, the Asia Cup will be the first challenge of 2025. After that the focus will be shifted to the 2026 T20 World Cup, but during this time Team India will have to retain a good position in the World Test Championship 2025-27 points table. After that, for the 2027 ODI World Cup, Gambhir will also take strict decisions, especially Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are not clear. Know here what kind of roadmap is being prepared for the future of the Indian team as a coach?

All three are in format

This year, Gautam Gambhir had said that he wants to work with a captain in all three formats, because it becomes easy to work with the same captain. He also highlighted its complexity. Gambhir said that Team India plays a lot of cricket in a year, in such a situation, it would be very difficult to find such a captain who plays all three formats. These days there is a discussion that the Indian team can be given only one captain in all three formats. For this, the name of Shubman Gill has come out, who went to England and got his first Test draw.

With experience, Gill will be even more mature as a Test captain. Recently, it was also reported that Rohit Sharma may play 2027 ODI World Cup, but he will remain captain till then, nothing can be said on it. This has led to those possibilities that the ODI captaincy may soon come on the shoulders of Shubman Gill. The matter gets stuck on the T20 captaincy, which is currently with Suryakumar Yadav. After Gautam Gambhir became the coach, India has won every T20 series. Since Gambhir himself has expressed his desire to work with a captain, it is very possible that he can transform Team India within the next one year.

Trust on new players

In the last one year, it has also been clear that Gautam is showing confidence in serious youth. In the T20 team, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Sanju Samson and Arshdeep Singh have consistently performed amazing. At the same time, Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal are not only being prepared to lift the weights of the Test team, as well as youths like Akashdeep, Sai Sudarshan and Nitish Kumar Reddy are also being prepared. In the ODI format, there are still senior seniors like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja, who are speculated to take a decision after the Australian tour.

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IND vs Eng: South Africa won the title by defeating Australia by 5 wickets in the World Test Championship final. After this, former cricketer Dale Stan predicted about the India vs England Test series and told which team will win this series. According to him, the results of the five matches will come out and Shubman Gill and Team will fight strong battle.

Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, Team India will play the first Test at the Handingley Cricket Stadium in Leeds from June 20. After about 15 years, this is happening when there is no one from Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin in the Indian Test team, the three veterans have taken retirement from this format. Now there is a team under the captaincy of Gill, in which most of the players are young.

Who will win India vs England Test Series?

Dale Steyn feels that the results of all the matches of the series will come out. When asked about the geiographs of the India vs England Test series, he said, “All the five matches will be close, no one will be disinterested. I think England will win this series 3-2.” However, he also said that no team will win easily in any match.

England’s performance in McCullum’s coaching has been excellent in domestic Test matches, winning 15 in 20 matches. 4 matches have lost and 1 remained inconclusive. Looking at these figures, it seems that the prediction of Dale Steyn will be true. However, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Arshdeep Singh’s fast bowling can do wonders in England. KL Rahul, Shubman Gill is seen in good form.

The Indian cricket team has not won the Test series in England for 18 years. In 2007, India won the last Test series in England under the captaincy of Rahul Dravid. After this, under the captaincy of MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, the team toured England 4 times, but lost 3 series and ended at 1 draw.

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Indian team is playing an intra-squad match

Currently, an intra-squad match is being played between the Indian team and the India A team, which will be till June 16. KL Rahul and Shubman Gill played a half -century innings on the first day.

India Squad for England Test: The Indian cricket team’s tour of England will start from June 20, five Test matches will be played between the two teams. This series against England will be the first challenge in Team India’s World Test Championship 2025-27 cycle (WTC 2025-27). The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has also announced Team India for this series, but a deadly bowler has not got an entry in it. This bowler could prove to be very deadly in England’s conditions.

England batsmen tremble

Here is talking about Mohammed Shami, who specializes in swinging on both sides. Shami also knows very cleverly to bowl and set-up to take the wickets of batsmen. Shami has so far taken 44 wickets in 15 Tests against England. At the same time, he has taken 42 wickets in 14 matches so far in England’s Conditions. England is the country on foreign tours in which Mohammed Shami has taken the most wickets so far.

Why Mohammed Shami did not get a place

While announcing the Indian squad for the England Tour, Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar made a statement if Mohammed Shami was not elected. Agarkar had said that Shami has not yet been able to take a workload of the level, at which he should have been. Agarkar said that the selectors were expecting Shami to be fully fit, but it is unfortunate to not get fit. The Chief Selector said that Shami has not been fully fit to play the test format yet.

Indian Squad for England Tour: Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanu Ishwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurlel, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, famous Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Singh.

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Shubman Gill will not go on England tour?

Team India’s Test series with England is to start from June 20, but before that the India-A team is also going to visit England. India-A has to play 2 first-class matches with England Lions. BCCI has announced India-A squad for this tour, but it does not include Shubman Gill’s name far and wide. India-A team includes famous players like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Nitish Reddy, Shardul Thakur and Rituraj Gaikwad.

It is true that Shubman Gill will not go on England tour with the rest of the players involved in India-A, but he will be seen playing the first match with England Lions. Actually, India-A vs England Lions will start the first match from May 30, but during this time the playoff matches in IPL 2025 will also start from May 29. For this reason, along with Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan will not be able to play the first first-class match.

Will join another match

Shubman Gill will be seen playing in the second India-A vs England Lions match starting on 6 June. Along with him, Sai Sudarshan will also join India-A team from the second match. Both of them have scored more than 600 runs while playing for Gujarat Titans in IPL 2025. Since Gujarat has reached the playoffs, it is not possible for them to play the first match.

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