Jasprit Bumrah as Test Captain: Team India has to participate in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25 with Australia from November 22. But there is no good news about the upcoming series. It is being said that due to his reasons, regular captain Rohit Sharma may be out of the first Test match.
If Rohit Sharma does not participate in the Perth Test match, then who will lead the team?
Jasprit Bumrah to Lead India in Rohit Sharma’s Absence
This is the big question. People are very eager to know who will lead the team in Rohit’s absence. If you also have the same question, then head coach Gautam Gambhir has answered it in his press conference. Responding to questions posed by the reporters, Gambhir said, “Bumrah is the vice-captain of the team. If Rohit is not available for the match, he will captain the team in Perth.”
Now the question arises that if Jasprit Bumrah captains the Test team in the absence of Rohit Sharma, then how has the team’s performance been as captain? So let us tell you that in 2022, in the absence of the regular captain of Team India
Jasprit Bumrah as Test Captain
Jasprit Bumrah took command of the team in the Birmingham Test against England. During this, the team had to face defeat. Apart from Test cricket, Bumrah has also led the country in three T20 matches. Meanwhile, the Blue team has won both matches. In the year 2023, Bumrah was given the command of the team for the Ireland tour.
Talking about Bumrah’s Test career, he has played a total of 40 Test matches so far. Meanwhile, He has taken 173 wickets in 77 innings at an average of 20.57. He has the feat of taking 5 wickets 10 times in Test cricket. Here his personal best bowling performance is 6 wickets for 27 runs. While batting, he has scored 290 runs in 61 innings at an average of 7.07.
India Squad for Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25
- Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar.
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