Team India has reached England to play a five-Test series against England. This is the first tour of the Indian team after Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli retired from Test cricket. The first Test will be played in Leeds from June 20.
Led by new captain Shubman Gill, the young Indian team has reached England to create history. Team India's first litmus test will begin on June 20 at the Leeds ground. This time in this 5-Test series against England, the Indian team will play without Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, as both these players have retired from Test cricket. In such a situation, the big question is who will replace these two players in the playing eleven? But captain Shubman Gill is confident that he will make a winning playing eleven in the next 10 days.
It is difficult to fill the place of Virat and Rohit
Before leaving for the England tour, captain Shubman Gill told in the press conference that it is difficult to fill the place of Virat and Rohit, but we are not taking any pressure of it. We have full faith in the team. Gill further said that it is difficult to say anything about the playing eleven right now, but soon we will make a winning playing eleven. Our team has good batsmen who are ready to play in any difficult time. This time Team India has reached England with the intention of winning the Test series for the first time since 2007. In 18 years, Team India has not won any Test series in England. In view of this, the Indian team is going to start practice soon.
Practice camp will start on 8 June
Team India will start its practice camp in England from June 8. In which the players will practice. Earlier, some players of the team have played an unofficial match against England Lions. While KL Rahul is expected to play in the second unofficial match starting from Friday, June 6. After this, Team India will play a practice match against India-A on May 13. This practice match will prove to be very useful for Team India before the first Test match starting on June 20.
team india squad
Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper and vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav.
England squad for the first Test
Ben Stokes (captain), Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Bryden Carse, Sam Cook, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Josh Tongue, Chris Woakes.
test series schedule
First Test: 20-24 June, Leeds
Second Test: 2–6 July, Birmingham
Third Test: 10-14 July, Lord's
Fourth Test: 23–27 July, Manchester
Fifth Test: 31 July – 4 August, Kennington Oval
