BCCI has announced that Shubman Gill will captain the squad for the India tour of England, while Karun Nair and Sai Sudharsan will be part of the team, filling the spots left by Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. After the BCCI left out Sarfaraz, who had taken off 10 kgs weight before the England series, Sunil Gavaskar explained the difference in trips he made as a cricket player.
Sunil Gavaskar’s Statement
“It’s tough, that’s what cricket is all about. When you get opportunities, you have to make sure the place is yours. Even if you score a hundred, you should make sure that you don’t go into your next innings thinking you scored a hundred in the previous knock. You have to get your eye in and get those runs again. You must not give anybody a chance to push you out of the team,” Gavaskar told India Today.
“It’s entirely up to you to ensure you cement that spot. You need to keep knocking on the doors and break the doors down.”
“I think it’s a tough call because after the tour of Australia, there was no red-ball cricket. Yes, there was the Ranji Trophy, but he was injured. So, he didn’t play. There was no way he could show what his form was.”
“You have to be undroppable. We have seen in the past, if a team loses a series, the guys who are 13th, 14th, 15th in the squad get dropped. You have to take your chances,” he added.
India’s Squad For The England Tour
Shubman Gill (Captain), Rishabh Pant (Vice-Captain & Wicketkeeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (Wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav
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