The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has introduced Workforce India’s squad for the upcoming red-ball tour of England, which incorporates 5 Check matches. Star pacer Mohammad Shami has been neglected of the squad.
Talking on not choosing Shami for the tour, chairman of the choice committee, Ajit Agarkar, identified the pacer’s health concern, saying (by way of News18):
“His workload is not what it must be…in the intervening time he is not match.”
The five-match sequence will start on June 20. The sequence opener can be performed at Leeds (Headingly), adopted by the second Check at Edgbaston (Birmingham). The third Check can be hosted by the enduring Lord’s Cricket Floor in London, with the fourth and fifth Assessments being performed at Previous Trafford (Manchester) and The Oval (London), respectively.
The BCCI choice committee met on Saturday, Might 24, and chosen an 18-member squad for India’s first sequence of the World Check Championship (WTC) 2025-27 cycle.
India’s squad contains six pacers and three spinners. Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, and Prasidh Krishna made it to the record of pacers and seam-bowling all-rounders. In the meantime, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, and Washington Sundar are the spinners and spin-bowling all-rounders who’ve discovered themselves a spot.
Shubman Gill named India’s new Check captain
India’s common Check skipper Rohit Sharma introduced his retirement from the longest format of the sport earlier this month, opening one spot in the group’s high order. The choice committee had an added duty to call a brand new Check skipper.
Whereas there have been speculations about Jasprit Bumrah being named India’s subsequent Check captain, Shubman Gill’s identify additionally popped up as a number one candidate. Asserting India’s squad for the England tour, Ajit Agarkar, the chief selector, named Gill because the group’s new Check skipper.
Notably, only a few days after Rohit’s Check retirement, Virat Kohli too determined to step again from Check cricket, opening one other spot in the group at No. 4. With two stalwarts retiring from the oldest format of the sport, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sai Sudharsan and Karun Nair discovered themselves a spot in India’s squad and can look to creating their means into the group’s enjoying XI.
Workforce India’s squad for the five-match Check tour of England: Shubman Gill (C), Rishabh Pant (VC and WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sai Sudharsan Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav
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Edited by Parag Jain
