Shubman Gill Keeps Suspense on Number 4 Batsman: India’s new Test captain Shubman Gill made a statement on the number 4 batsman.

Many former great players and specialists have supported Karun Nair, KL Rahul and Shubman Gill as Kohli’s successor. Nothing has been officially decided yet. It will be interesting to see who will bat for India at number 4 in the first match of the series starting against England on 20 June.

In a conversation with India’s new Test captain Gill, former Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik, answered the questions of Sky Sports. During this, he asked directly about his batting order but Gill did not clear anything. Gill was India’s number 3 batsman in the last Test series against Australia. According to Gill, the Indian team is playing a warm-up match, and after that the team will decide the management batting order.

Gill said, “Not now, I think we are playing a practice match, a warm-up match, so I will probably do some experiment in it and see which batting order will fit for whom.”

Gill batted at number 3 in 2023-25 ​​WTC Circle and earlier he used to play as an opener. Gill has not batted in fourth place for India in any format so far, but the England series can start a new era. Rahul has batted at number 4 for India in Tests and ODIs, but the 33 -year -old right -handed batsman of Karnataka is expected to play as an opening batsman in the series against England. He has increased his possibilities as an opener by scoring a century for India A in the second informal Test played against England Lions in Northampton from 6 to 9 June.