After the end of the Sri Lanka tour, the Indian cricket team has got a break of more than one and a half months. After this break, the Indian team will play two Test matches and three T20 matches against Bangladesh. Overall, the Indian cricket team has to play 10 Tests within 111 days. In such a situation, most of the questions will be about the selection of Team India. Especially about the Test team.
Because the upcoming 10 Tests will determine the path of the Indian team to reach the final of the World Test Championship (WTC). The Indian team will have to perform brilliantly in these matches. In such a situation, there will be a lot of ‘nurakushti’ on which players will play in Team India in terms of Test cricket.
According to the information that aajtak.in has received from sources connected to BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India), the place of 4 players is confirmed in the upcoming 10 test matches. If a 15-member squad is considered, then 11 players will have to do a lot of ‘nurakushti’. That means many faces in the names of these 11 players can surprise you.
BCCI sources said that captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jaspreet Bumrah and R Ashwin are certain to play in the next 10 Tests. Whereas, other players will be selected on the basis of their performance in the Duleep Trophy.
Duleep Trophy will start on 5th September. 4 teams will play in it. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jaspreet Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin have been exempted from playing in this tournament. That means they will not play in the tournament. But all these four players will definitely be seen playing in the upcoming 10 Tests.
Sources also said that Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar and Head Coach Gautam Gambhir will keep an eye on the performance of these players. Other selectors Shiv Sundar Das, Subroto Banerjee, Salil Ankola, Sridharan Sharath will also go to the ground to see the performance of the players. In such a situation, the performance of the players in the Duleep Trophy matches will also be seen on the ground.
The Indian team is at the top of the WTC points table with 68.52 percentage points. India has 74 points from 6 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw in 9 matches so far. Australia is at the second place in the WTC table. The Kangaroo team has 90 points from 8 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw in 12 matches. Its point percentage is 62.50. The New Zealand team is at the third place in the WTC table. New Zealand has 36 points from 3 wins and 3 losses in 6 matches. The Kiwi team’s point percentage is 50.00. After this, Sri Lanka is at the fourth place, South Africa at the fifth and Pakistan at the sixth place. While England is at the seventh, Bangladesh at the eighth and West Indies at the ninth place.
This is the third round of the World Test Championship, which started in 2023 and will continue till 2025. The ICC has already released the rules related to the points system for this third round. The team will get 12 points for winning the Test match, 4 points for drawing the match and 6 points for tying the match.
At the same time, 100 percent points will be added for winning the match, 50 percent for a tie, 33.33 percent for a draw and zero percent for losing. A total of 24 points will be available in a two-match series and 60 points in a five-match series. Since the ranking in the points table is primarily determined on the basis of winning percentage.
The Indian team has to play 10 Test matches in the next 111 days (3 months 19 days) from 19 September. While overall, in 5 months, apart from 10 Tests, 8 T20 and 3 ODI matches have to be played. After Bangladesh, India has to play three Test matches against New Zealand and five against Australia on their soil.
Team A: Shubman Gill (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khalil Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwat Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.
Team B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wicketkeeper).
Team C: Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Baba Indrajit, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Umran Malik, Vaishak Vijaykumar, Anshul Kamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Sandeep Warrior.
Team D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Saurabh Kumar.
Bangladesh tour of India
First Test- Chennai- September 19-23
2nd Test – Kanpur – September 27 to October 1
1st T20 – Gwalior – 6 October
2nd T20 – Delhi – 9 October
3rd T20 – Hyderabad – October 12
New Zealand tour of India (2024)
October 16-20: First Test, Bengaluru
October 24-28: 2nd Test, Pune
November 1-5: 3rd Test, Mumbai
Indian team’s tour of Australia (N(November-January 2025)
November 22-26: First Test, Perth
December 6-10: Second Test, Adelaide
December 14-18: Third Test, Brisbane
December 26-30: Fourth Test, Melbourne
Jan 03-07: Fifth Test, Sydney
England tour of India
1st T20 – January 22 – Kolkata
2nd T20 – January 25 – Chennai
3rd T20I – January 28 – Rajkot
4th T20 – January 31 – Pune
5th T20I – February 2 – Mumbai
1st ODI- February 6- Nagpur
2nd ODI – February 9 – Cuttack
3rd ODI – February 12 – Ahmedabad
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)