The Indian cricket team is going to visit England for the five -Test series next month and before this difficult tour, Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir is seen visiting several temples. In this episode, he should reach the Maa Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati to seek blessings before the tour of England, where fans got into a wave to see him.
India is set to play a five-match Test series against England from 20 June and this series will also start the World Test Championship 2025-27 cycle of India. The tour of England is going to be the first project for India’s new Test captain Shubman Gill, so we will know how effective the pair can prove to be with their Gambhir.
The England Test series is very important for Gambhir as India has not succeeded in long format during his tenure. He lost the domestic series against New Zealand after 12 years and the Kiwi team whitewashed Team India for the first time on Indian soil. Apart from this, the team also failed to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, India lost 1-3 in the five-match series.
After this defeat, the Indian team also failed to qualify for the final of the World Test Championship (WTC) for the first time in their history. This terrible performance led to a major change in the team and captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin retired from the Test after losing two consecutive series.
Now Shubman Gill will lead a young team in England and his deputy will be Rishabh Pant. Sai Sudarshan and Arshdeep Singh have earned their first Test call-up while Karun Nair and Shardul Thakur have returned to the team. Meanwhile, Sarfaraz Khan, Harshit and Mohammed Shami failed to make it to the team.
India’s team for England tour is as follows: Shubman Gill (Captain), Rishabh Pant (Wicketkeeper) (Vice-Qetan), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanyu Ishwar, Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurlel (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Sharaja Siraj, Famous Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav.
