Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rohit Sharma
India vs England Test Series: After IPL 2025, the Indian team will visit England, where Team India will play a five -Test series, but before that Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma of India retired from Test cricket. Now the Indian team will have a new captain on England tour. There are speculations that Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant and Jaspreet Bumrah can be made captains. There is a great possibility that Gill, the Test team commanded. Let’s know, how many Indian players have captained the Test on England soil so far.
Test captaincy in England has done 18 Indians so far
For India, the first Test captaincy on England soil was done by Colonel CK Naidu. Under his captaincy, India played a Test match against England in 1932 at Lord’s. So far, a total of 18 Indian players have captained Tests in England. These include Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajit Wadekar, Dutta Gaikwad, Sourav Ganguly, Vijay Hazare, S Venkataraghavan, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Nawab Pataudi Senior, Maharaja of Vijayanagaram, Jaspriti Sharma, Jaspriti Sharma and Pankaja Roy’s names include.
Both Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli have captained 9-9 Test matches in England, which is the highest for India. At the same time, Kohli has won the highest 3 Tests as captain in England.
Gill and Pant do not have experience
Jasprit Bumrah has captained a Test match in England. At the same time, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant have not yet captained India in the Test and both of them have no experience of captaincy in the Test. Gill and Pant have commanded Team India at T20 International.
India won 35 Test matches against England
A total of 136 Test matches have been played between India and England so far, out of which India has won in 35 and England have managed to win in 51. There are 50 Test matches draw between the two teams.
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