Follow UsShubman Gill has been appointed as India’s new Test captain, and he will be playing his maiden series when the Indian unit takes on England, away from home, in what is considered one of the toughest tours for any side, let alone with a first-time captain leading it.
Gill has been Rohit Sharma’s deputy in the fifty-over format, but will don the captain’s hat for the first time in Tests, making expectations of him rise a notch higher than as a batter.
Revealing what expectations the Indian senior men’s selection committee chief, Ajit Agarkar, and head coach Gautam Gambhir have of him, Gill said that they don’t expect him to do something that he is not capable of.
“They just want me to be able to express myself as a leader. They are not expecting me to do something that I am not capable of,” Gill said in an interview with former India cricketer Dinesh Karthik for Sky Sports.
Gill also revealed that neither he nor his father ever dreamt of him becoming India’s Test captain and thus the first conversation he had with his dad after the official announcement by the BCCI was a heartfelt one.