{"id":75413,"date":"2025-05-24T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=75413"},"modified":"2025-05-24T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:00:30","slug":"bcci-announces-shubman-gill-as-new-test-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/bcci-announces-shubman-gill-as-new-test-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"BCCI announces Shubman Gill as new test captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India named top-order batsman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/babar-azam-again-on-top-dethrones-shubman-gill\/\">Shubman Gill<\/a> as the new Test captain, the cricket board said Saturday, as it announced the team for next month&#8217;s all-important tour of England.<\/p>\n<p>Gill, 25, succeeds Rohit Sharma, who recently retired from Tests along with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/virat-kohli-breaks-record-to-become-fastest-to-14000-odi-runs\/\">Virat Kohli.<\/a> He will take charge in a five-Test series in England starting June 20.<\/p>\n<p>Gill will lead a team in transition after Rohit, 38, and Kohli, 36, walked away from the five-day format earlier this month in a space of six days to leave a big void.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shubman Gill-led Team India are READY for an action-packed Test series&#8221;, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>His vice-captain will be Rishabh Pant.<\/p>\n<p>But pace bowler Mohammed Shami has been left out of the 18-member squad due to fitness concerns, chief selector Ajit Agarkar said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah is in the squad but will not be able to play all five Tests due to his workload management.<\/p>\n<p>Gifted with a wide range of shots, Gill has led Indian Premier League team Gujarat Titans into the playoffs of this edition of the T20 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>He has played 32 Tests, scoring 1,893 runs at an average of 35.05 with five hundreds since his debut at Melbourne in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Gill has been a mainstay of India&#8217;s batting in Test and ODI cricket and earlier this year played a key role in the team&#8217;s 50-overs Champions Trophy title in Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India named top-order batsman Shubman Gill as the new Test captain, the cricket board said Saturday, as it announced the team for next month&#8217;s all-important tour of England. Gill, 25, succeeds Rohit Sharma, who recently retired from Tests along with Virat Kohli. He will take charge in a five-Test series in England starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":75414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8130,28989],"class_list":["post-75413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-shubman-gill","tag-test-captain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75415,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75413\/revisions\/75415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}