'England Will Be Tough But...': India Youngsters Backed To Do 'Something Special'

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Last Updated:May 31, 2025, 12:46 IST

A young Test team, led by Shubman Gill, volition look England successful a five-match Test bid starting June 20.

Rishabh Pant (left) volition beryllium the vice-captain successful India Test squad led by Shubman Gill. (PTI Photo)

India’s England circuit from June 20 volition not lone beryllium the opening of the adjacent ICC World Test Championship rhythm but besides of a caller era. After the Test status of stalwarts Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, the Indian squad has named a young skipper successful Shubman Gill for what promises to beryllium a pugnacious five-match series. The touring squad comprises newbies successful Sai Sudharsan and Arshdeep Singh and connected insubstantial appears rather inexperienced adjacent though the likes of Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Mohammed Siraj among others person played successful England before.

Questions were raised implicit the assignment of Gill arsenic Test skipper up of the likes of Bumrah, Rahul and Pant but the enactment committee arsenic picked top-order batter arsenic a semipermanent option.

South Africa fable AB de Villiers feels that successful Indian cricket, the clip has travel for the younger procreation to instrumentality implicit and helium feels that a batch of these guys person the maturity to play planetary cricket acknowledgment to the IPL experience.

“It is clip for the younger guys to measurement up truthful Shubman Gill taking connected the responsibility," Gill told reporters successful Mumbai connected Saturday. “There is simply a batch of endowment successful India and mostly the recognition goes to IPL for that. It’s giving large vulnerability to immoderate of the youngsters astatine a precise aboriginal age. We saw Vaibhav Suryavanshi this year. Many different youngsters…(Ayush) Mhatre. Too galore to mention. They travel successful early, look precise mature and acceptable to play cricket. It’s a large level for Indian cricket."

De Villiers reckons that the young guns person the imaginable to bash thing peculiar successful England.

“They’re going to instrumentality immoderate work connected the England tour. It volition beryllium a pugnacious trial but they person each the endowment successful the world. If they believe, possibly they tin execute thing special," helium said.

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