Jasprit Bumrah To Not Play All 5 Test Matches Against England? Head Coach Gautam Gambhir Makes Big Revelation

Ahead of India's tour to England, Shubman Gill made his first appearance as the new India Test captain at the pre-departure press conference in Mumbai, where he is being accompanied by head coach Gautam Gambhir. The Gill-led team will warm up against India A in an intra-squad match prior to the main event of the India-England Test series, which begins on June 20. Both head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Shubman Gill informed the reporters during the press conference that they were unsure of which three games Jasprit Bumrah would play in.

He informed the press that it would be entirely up to him. Only his level of fitness and desire to continue playing in the series will determine this. As the Test series goes on, Bumrah's availability will be called.

However, Bumrah's absence from all five Tests should not be a huge surprise. It seemed inevitable that India would not risk their fast bowling in both formats in all five Tests of a series after what transpired in Australia earlier this year.

He was India's top performer in the Australia series. His performance with the ball where he took 32 wickets across five matches. However, his back injury forced him to be ruled out midway of the fifth Tst

India Test Squad

Shubman Gill (c), Rishabh Pant (vc, wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav.

Ben Stokes (c), Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Sam Cook, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jamie Smith (wk), Josh Tongue, Chris Woakes

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