No Virat Kohli, no Rohit Sharma? It doesn’t matter – Team India is still a threat, Graeme warns Swan. Cricket news
New Delhi: India is set to kick its five -match Test series against England in Leeds on 20 June. Visitors would be without stallwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, both recently retired from Test cricket. Will England get an upper hand in the absence of these two Indian superstars? Former England spinner Graeme Swan does not think so. According to Swan, India still has enough shelling to give a strong challenge in batting and bowling departments.“This is the perfect warm -up for ash, to be honest. India is a big series and we have gone to India in the last two or three times, we are completely out. So in our own backyard, our home, we need to defeat India. We need to play well. They are not Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma. He is two full experienced superstars of the bat. Swan told Sky Sports Cricket, without it, yes, they have found great players, but we have found bowlers, who exploit our situations well, who can actually bowl well.“I think England should look at this series to win, and I think they should look to win it completely. I will take 4-1, 3-2 on a push, but I really hope that we will do well and take the confidence to the ashes,” he said.‘Gill mixture of Rohit and Virat’India’s new Test Captain Shubman Gill is a mixture of his predecessors Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, but when he leads the national side in the much-awaited five-observance series, he will be “very man”, Jose Butler believes.Former England White-Ball captain Butler, who played under Gill during this year’s IPL, said the 25-year-old would need to find the right balance between the bat and his own performance.“He is a truly influential player and an influential youth,” Butler said on his podcast for cricket’s love with former England Pacer Stuart Broad.“He is very calm and is measured when he speaks, but (this) is interesting, I think he has got a little fight about him on the field; a little intensity, quite emotional. I think he will be a mixture of Kohli and Rohit.“Kohli (was) that, like the real aggressive (character), actually changed the Indian team, in your face, for competition.
Butler hopes Gill “a little bit in the middle”.“He is clearly learned from those two people … but he will be very his man.”Butler also highlighted the immense pressure and investigation coming with the captaincy of the Indian testing team.He said, “He talked about batting and fraud; so he wants to be just a batsman when he is batting, and then he will try to work and work on his captaincy and separate two roles,” he said.“I don’t think we can understand the level and stardom of interest that these people have. You see it around the IPL, you know about it, but really living yourself … I think they say that they say that Indian test captain is like the third or fourth-impressive person in India, behind the Prime Minister, so you are really putting on that chair.“(A) one) There are one-and-a-half billion people, all cricket-plants, so it is going to be a huge task for him. Kohli is the king, Shubman is a prince: It’s the story that he roams there, and I think he is a man coming … while step in that number 4, it’s big shoe, not?”Bharat Squad: Shubman Gill (C), Rishabh Pant (VC, WK), Yashsvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanyu Ishvaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jur, Washington Suudular, Washington Sundud, Washing Sundu, Shramduri, Krishi, Surrender Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav.
