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Ever since Gautam Gambhir has become the head coach, Team India’s performance in Test cricket has been continuously poorly. After the defeat against New Zealand and Australia, the team has now started poorly in England. After the defeat in the first Test match played in Leeds, Gambhir has a challenge to return Team India back on track. For this, Indian coaches are engaged in finding solutions and it seems that for this, they can go on to take Arshdeep Singh.
In the last session of the Leeds Test, Team India had to face defeat by 5 wickets. In this match, Jasprit Bumrah and to some extent in the second innings, no other Indian bowler was able to affect. Especially the famous Krishna and Shardul Thakur’s fast bowling could not put any special pressure. Both of them got some wickets, but the English batsmen also scored a lot of runs on them and achieved the target of 372 runs easily.
Serious in preparing to give Arshdeep Singh a chance?
Now Team India is eyeing Edgbaston Test, which is starting from July 2. Already, Jasprit Bumrah’s apprehension of playing in this match has increased the tension of Team India. The ineffective performance of the rest of the bowlers on it is further increasing this concern. In such a situation, coach Gambhir Arshdeep Singh can be put in Edgbaston Test and present a new challenge to the England batsmen.
Its signs have also started getting because Team India started his practice for this Test match from Friday 27 June and during this time Gambhir discussed with Arshdeep for a long time. According to a report by Revspports, the discussion of both of them did not seem to exchange any general suggestions, but looked very excited. It seemed that Gambhir was trying to convince him that as if all his expectations were just on Arshdeep.
England will prescribe a different challenge
There is sure to be a change in Team India in the absence of Bumrah. But will this be the only change? If captain Shubman Gill and coach Gambhir are determined to give another chance to the rest of the players, then who will be given a chance to instead of Bumrah? He has options in the form of Akash Deep and Arshdeep in front of him. While Akash Deep is more experienced and effective, Arshdeep has not made a Test debut yet. But Arshdeep is a left-handed pacer and in such a situation, he can bring a variety in the Indian bowling line-up and can put the England batsmen in trouble.
