The performance of the Indian team in the Border Gavaskar Trophy played in Australia was very shameful. From Virat Kohli to Rohit Sharma, no one performed well. From then on, it was decided that there would be major changes in the Indian Test team. A glimpse of this was also seen before the 5 Test match series against England. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced their retirement from Test cricket. After this, a young team was selected for the England tour. The series has now started.During this time, many such coincidences are being seen, which happened for the first time.
When the Indian team used to go to England to play a Test series, it was called the Pataudi series. However, this time the BCCI and the England Cricket Board changed the name of this series. The series will now be known as the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
Rohit Sharma had said goodbye to the Test format, so Shubman Gill was given the captaincy of the Indian Test team. Gill became the 37th Test captain of India. Before this, Gill had no experience of captaincy in Tests. He has captained in 5 T20 Internationals as well as the IPL.
After Virat Kohli’s retirement, the number 4 position was vacant. In such a situation, everyone had a question in their mind that who will play at this number. Gill usually played as an opener or at number 3. However, Gill came at number 4 for the first time and he also played a memorable innings. Shubman Gill played an innings of 147 runs in 227 balls.