Indian tour of England: After the retirement of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, it is time for the next generation of Indian cricket to take over. For the first test begin in Leeds only one week remains. Under the leadership of Shubman Gill’s the Indian cricket team bears a fresh look. Debutantes like Sai Sudharshan are in centre. Shardul Thakur and Abhimanyu Easwaran likes players will get a chance is also a matter of issue. In the middle of this, Sanjay Bangar who is former Indian batting coach has given his take on the 1st Test playing XI.
He told on Star Sports “My team is Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran at No. 3, Shubman Gill at No. 4, Rishabh Pant at No. 5, Karun Nair at No. 6, Nitish Kumar Reddy at No. 7, Kuldeep Yadav at No. 8, and then three seamers – Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah,”
“I see Nitish as a batter who can bowl. I can’t see him as a bowler who can bat. However, Nitish starts in my team ahead of Shardul. Shardul doesn’t play in my first XI. Nitish Reddy will play first.”
Meanwhile, Rajya Sabha Member of parliament (MP) and former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh, on wednesday sponsored the right-hand batter Shubman Gill, who was appointed the skipper of the Indian Cricket Team in the longest format of the cricket recently and told that he should be given time to gave the results.
After the retirement of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma from Test cricket last month, India was omitted on experience. The team management turned to youngsters to mark the beginning of a new era. After Rohit’s decision, the leadership baton was passed from Rohit Sharma to Shubman Gill.
Harbhajan Singh said media on Shubman Gill’s Test captaincy “Every captain has the capability to carry forward the legacy. Captains are not made in 1-2 months. You give some time to Gill, he will rise to the occasion, and you will see how capable he is as a captain. We have already seen him as a batter, that he is ‘Gill Sahab the great’.”
“We hope that India does well once again on English soil. Best wishes to Shubman Gill and Team India. It is a young team but a ‘dum waali team’,” the former spinner Harbhajan Singh added.
Sanjay Bangar’s 1st Test playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah
