crew India Captain Rohit Sharma has not suffered an injury and is expected to travel to England on June 20 for the one-off Test which will be followed by a white-ball series. He has been rested for the ongoing T20I series against South Africa after a busy Indian Premier League season. The one-off Test against England will be the first important Test for Rohit Sharma as a red-ball captain.
Meanwhile, several Indian players, including Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Prashant Krishna and Shubman Gill, flew to England on Thursday morning. But according to a report, Rohit’s absence sparked injury speculation. Play Today, the Indian captain is fully fit and will travel from Bengaluru to England on June 20 along with other Team India players, who are currently involved in the ongoing T20I series against South Africa.
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The Indian Test team will take on England in the fifth Test from last year’s tour, which was postponed after several COVID cases were reported at the visitors’ camp. The match is to be played on 1 July at Edgbaston.
India will miss KL Rahul who will go to Germany for the treatment of his back injury. After being ruled out of the ongoing T20I series against South Africa, he is set to be ruled out on the upcoming England tour as well. Rahul last played international cricket in February this year and was last seen captaining the Lucknow Super Giants IPL 2022, became the second highest run-scorer in the tournament, scoring 616 runs at an average of 51.33 and a strike rate of 135.38 to help take IPL debutants to the playoffs.
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Indian led by Rohit Sharma Cricket The team will play a few warm-up T20 matches in the United Kingdom before taking on England in 3 T20Is and as many One Day Internationals (ODIs). world no. The first-ranked T20 team will play their first tour match against Derbyshire at the Incora County Ground on 1 July. The County Ground in Northampton will host spectators for the second practice match on 3 July.
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