India selectors held casual talks with Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant however stays undecided over who will succeed Rohit Sharma as Check captain, Sky Sports activities Information understands.
Sharma retired from Check cricket earlier in Could, leaving the captaincy position vacant forward of this summer season’s collection in England, which begins on June 20.
India are anticipated to announce their subsequent captain and Check squad for the England collection this week.
Sky Sports activities Information beforehand reported Gill and Pant are the highest two candidates for the position, with Jasprit Bumrah opting out as he would battle to play a full five-Check collection.
Each Gill and Pant have been sounded out, with selectors divided.
One selector on the BCCI has reservations over giving Gill the captaincy, provided that his place within the facet shouldn’t be assured and urged he can be higher suited to the vice-captaincy position.
A supply in Indian cricket has advised Sky Sports activities Information that Sharma initially needed to play the England collection and retire mid-series, just like MS Dhoni’s Check retirement throughout a collection in opposition to Australia in 2014.
Nonetheless, selectors needed consistency through the collection and provided Sharma the chance to go to the collection however not as captain. He determined to retire as a substitute.
Virat Kohli will even be lacking from the England collection after asserting his retirement from Assessments, quickly after Sharma stepped away from pink ball cricket.
Sky Sports activities Information has contacted the BCCI for remark.
England vs India Check schedule
All video games at 11am UK and Eire; all dwell on Sky Sports activities
- First Check: Friday June 20-Tuesday June 24 – Headingley
- Second Check: Wednesday July 2-Sunday July 6 – Edgbaston
- Third Check: Thursday July 10-Monday July 14 – Lord’s
- Fourth Check: Wednesday July 23-Sunday July 27 – Emirates Previous Trafford
- Fifth Check: Thursday July 31-Monday August 4 – The Kia Oval
