Shubman Gill Test Captain 2025: After about a month, the Indian cricket team has to visit England. 5 Test matches are to be played between the two teams and let us tell that it would also start the 2025-27 (WTC 2025-27) cycle of the World Test Championship. After the retirement of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, many questions have arisen as to which players will go on England tour. According to media reports, Team India can be announced on May 23, but before that a big update has come out about India’s new Test captain (India New Test Captain).

According to the news agency PTI, Shubman Gill can become the new captain of the Indian Test team. Recently, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Jaspreet Bumrah have also been named in the captaincy race. According to PTI, Shubman Gill recently met the head coach of the Indian team Gautam Gambhir in Delhi. It is being told that his meeting lasted for 4-5 hours and Gautam Gambhir has almost decided that he wants to seal Gill’s name for captaincy.

Jasprit Bumrah’s leaf cut!

Recently, speculation about Jasprit Bumrah being made a Test captain had gained momentum, which is also the vice -captain of the Test team. It has also been revealed in the report that some high officials in the board are not very happy with Gill being made captain, yet there are reports that it has been decided to make Gill as captain.

Talking about Bumrah, he has been suffering from constant injuries. Due to workload management, it will be difficult for Bumrah to play all 5 Test matches against England. The possibility of not playing regularly in the playing XI can also be a big reason for Bumrah not to become the captain. Please tell that Shubman Gill was already seen as the future of Indian cricket, he is also the vice -captain of the ODI team.

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Team India Test Captain 2025: After Rohit Sharma’s retirement, the biggest question is who will be the new captain of India’s Test team (India Test Captain 2025)? Recently, it was claimed that Shubman Gill could soon be declared a new captain, but Lal Chand Rajput, who was a coach in Team India, believes something else. He says that the command of the Indian Test team should be handed over to fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah.

Talking to the news agency PTI, Lalchand Rajput said that whenever Rohit Sharma was unavailable for a Test series, Jasprit Bumrah used to captain. Please tell that Bumrah is also the vice -captain of the Test team.

Make Jaspreet Bumrah captain

Lalchand Rajput said, “Jaspreet Bumrah also captained the last Test championship, perhaps against England. I believe that India’s team is quite young and Jaspreet Bumrah is one of the senior players of this team. He has shown better in the role of captaincy.”

He said that Jaspreet Bumrah should be made captain on the tour of England, in that case the responsibility of vice -captain should be entrusted in the hands of Shubman Gill. Lalchand Rajput believes that Gill will learn a lot while the vice -captain, which will help him become a good captain in the future.

Virat Kohli is also in discussion

On one hand, the topic of the new captain of the Test team remains in the discussion. BCCI will have to take this big decision before the tour of England. Meanwhile, there is speculation that Virat Kohli has also made up his mind to say goodbye to Test cricket. However, he has not said anything himself yet. After Rohit, Virat also retires, so in such a situation, it will be very difficult to compensate him on the tour of England. Talking about Lalchand Rajput, he is the head coach of the UAE team right now.

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