Shubman Gill is likely to open with Rohit Sharma in 5th Test against England: Report

Shubman Gill is likely to open with Rohit Sharma in 5th Test against England: Report

IND vs ENG Team India: Before the start of the England tour, Team India’s opener KL Rahul is injured and will no longer be a part of the team. The team has not even taken Rahul’s replacement, so who will open the innings with Rohit Sharma is a big question.

This will be Rohit’s opening partner

KL Rahul was injured before the T20 series played against South Africa, so in this Test match, Rohit Sharma along with young batsman Shubman Gill made an innings for Team India. can start. Shubman Gill also did better on the tour of Australia, his technique is also better on outside pitches.

Excellent performance in test cricket

Shubman Gill’s Test career has been very good so far, he has also played match-winning innings for Team India. He has scored 558 runs in 10 test matches played so far. During this, Shubman has scored 4 half-centuries. Shubman Gill has also scored 12 centuries and 26 half-centuries in domestic matches.

Have started the innings together

Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill have already started the innings together for Team India. These two players have opened together 13 times. In these 13 innings, both these batsmen have added 424 runs with half-century partnerships.

Team India’s tour of England is going to start from July 1. India has to play 1 Test, 3 ODIs and 3 T20 matches on the tour of England in July-August.

This only Test will take place to make up for the fifth Test that cancelled due to Corona last year. Everything is going to be different for Team India in this Test match.

Team India for England tour

Rohit Sharma (capt), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami , Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Prasidh Krishna.