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Shubman Gill has scored 1893 runs in 32 Tests played for India.
Batter Shubman Gill can be made the vice -captain on the tour of England. After the end of the current season of IPL, the Indian team has to visit England. Where a 5 -match Test series is to be played between the two teams. The tour will start from June 20 and run till 31 July.
The Indian team has not been announced yet for this series. It is likely that by the second week of May, the BCCI will announce the team.
The board wants vice -captain who plays all matches Earlier, Indian Express was told by a BCCI source, “We want a player who is available for all five Test matches and should be given the responsibility of vice -captain.” Jasprit Bumrah will not play all five matches, so we do not want to appoint separate vice-captains for different matches. It would be better to have the captain and vice -captains and play all five Test matches.
It is difficult to play all the matches of Bumrah According to the Indian Express report, Jaspreet Bumrah hardly plays all five Test matches on this tour. This decision can be taken under the workload management. In such a situation, Bumrah will not be given the responsibility of vice -captain for this series.
A young player wants selectors to vice -captain This report states that Indian selectors want to make a young player vice -captain, who will lead the team later. In such a situation, Shubman Gill can be made the vice -captain of the Indian team on this tour. Shubman is captaining Gujarat Titans (GT) in IPL 2025.
Bumrah was injured on Australia tour Bumrah played all five Test matches at the Australia tour (Border Gavaskar Trophy), in the series he was the vice -captain and was elected the Player of the Series. The last Test of the series was engaged. Then the reason for Bumrah’s injury was said to be more workload. Bumrah Champions Trophy could not play in 2025 due to back injury. However, he has made a great comeback in IPL 2025 by fit. He has taken 11 wickets for Mumbai Indians (Mi) so far by playing 7 matches.
Bumrah’s performance in Border Gavaskar Trophy
Only Rohit can captain Indian captain Rohit Sharma can captain the Indian team in the England tour to be held in June. In fact, after losing the Test series against Australia and the previous New Zealand earlier this year, questions were being raised on Rohit Sharma’s captaincy. Not only this, after the Champions Trophy, there was also talk of removing him from the captaincy. However, the Indian team has won the Champions Trophy under Rohit’s captaincy.
