Gill likely to be new captain as selectors set to announce squad for England tour

With Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli announcing their Test retirements, Team India gears up for new leader

- TRIDIB BAPARNASH

The national selection committee is set to meet at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai on Saturday to pick the team for the upcoming five-Test series in England, starting 20 June, marking the start of a new World Test Championship (WTC) cycle.

Following the recent Test retirements of the talismanic batting duo of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, the team will have a new Test skipper, with Shubman Gill being touted as the front-runner for the job.

The stylish right-hander, who has long been projected as the Test captain-in-waiting, is likely to lead the side that includes big names, including Jasprit Bumrah, who had led India to a victory in the opening Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia in Perth late last year, and also captained India in the final Test in Sydney in January this year, after Rohit had kept himself out of the playing XI following a lean patch with the bat.