Who Will Be India's Next Test Captain? Former England Star Says 'It Will Be...'

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Last Updated:May 14, 2025, 13:16 IST

The Indian enactment committee volition conscionable aboriginal this period to prime India's Test squad for the England bid during which it volition besides sanction the adjacent captain.

Shubman Gill has played 32 Tests truthful far. (AFP Photo)

Shubman Gill is reportedly the starring contender to win Rohit Sharma arsenic the India Test skipper aft the latter’s status past week. Gill has captained India successful T20Is successful the past but hasn’t held immoderate enactment relation successful Tests yet. He though is the ODI and T20I vice-captain and besides leads his IPL franchise Gujarat Titans.

Besides Gill, accelerated bowler Jasprit Bumrah’s assertion is besides beardown and dissimilar Gill, successful Test cricket, helium has captained India successful the past. His has the acquisition and has admitted the tendency to pb the team.

However, Bumrah’s wounded grounds could go a large hurdle successful his ascencion to the throne. Former England allrounder Moeen Ali besides feels that the perfect prime is Bumrah but Gill could pip him to the role.

“I deliberation it volition beryllium Shubman Gill, Moeen said connected Sky Sports. “Ideally they (India) would privation Jasprit Bumrah to skipper due to the fact that helium is simply a precise bully captain, a bully person who has done it before. But due to the fact that of his wounded grounds helium mightiness not beryllium capable to past the full series, I deliberation they’ll springiness it (captaincy) to idiosyncratic who’s done decently truthful acold successful Test cricket."

“Gill leads Gujarat Titans successful IPL, truthful they’ve inactive got a very, precise bully captain, inexperienced yes but a bully skipper and bully brain, but it’ll (English conditions) beryllium a challenge," helium added.

Former India opener Kris Srikkanth though feels that Gill isn’t a certainty successful the playing XI shouldn’t beryllium handed implicit the captaincy duties. “Who’s a ready-made captaincy campaigner now? Shubman Gill? I don’t deliberation helium is inactive a certainty successful the XI," Srikkanth said.

His prime for the captaincy is Bumrah and suggests appointing either KL Rahul oregon Rishabh Pant arsenic the vice-captain to measurement successful whenever the accelerated bowler isn’t available.

“If I were the president of selectors, I would marque Bumrah the captain. And past I’d say, ‘Boss, play whichever matches you privation to’. I’d past name KL Rahul oregon Rishabh Pant arsenic vice-captain, due to the fact that these are certainties successful the XI," Srikkanth said.

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