Big announcement about Shubman Gill (Photo- PTI)
For Shubman Gill, the first series as a Test captain was quite excellent. He won everyone’s heart with his batting tour of England as well as captaincy. The Indian team managed to get this 5-match series equal to 2-2. Shubman Gill was also the highest run player in the series. After this memorable series, he has got another big responsibility. He has been made captain for a big tournament going to start at the end of this month.
Shubman Gill was made captain
After his impressive Test captaincy debut in England, now the Shubman Gill Duleep Trophy is ready to command the North Zone in 2025. The tournament is going to start in Bengaluru from August 28, and Gill has been announced to make Gill the captain of the North Zone team. Gill also captained the Dalip Trophy last time. Then he was the amazing of India A for only 1 match.
25-year-old Gill recently impressed everyone by captaining the Indian Test team in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against England. In this series, he scored 754 runs in five Tests, including four centuries. This brilliant performance helped him break the record of Sunil Gavaskar, which was the record of the highest runs by an Indian captain in the five -Test series. Now he is a new challenge in front of Gill, captaining the North Zone in the Dalip Trophy. This time the tournament is returning to its traditional zonal format, in which the state selectors of each zone will select their teams.
North zone squad
Shubman Gill (Captain), Shubham Khajuria, Ankit Kumar (Vice -captain), Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhul, Ankit Kalsi, Nishant Sindhu, Sahil Lotra, Mayank Dagar, Yudhveer Singh Charak, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Anshul Kamboj, Aukib Nabi, Kanhaiya Wadhavan (wicketkeeper).
Standby: Shubham Arora (wicketkeeper), Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Ravi Chauhan, Abid Mushtaq, Nishank Birla, Omar Nazir, Divesh Sharma.
