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INDIA IN ENGLAND

Bumrah get captaincy, Virat focuses on

form & India eye Test Championship

As the Indian arrive to England for a Test, ODIs and T20s, some bits of action on and off the field

Talking about Kohli ahead of the
OUR BUREAU
Test match against England Sharma
Edgbaston said, “Virat will be back with great
innings this time and I hope he will
he All-India Senior Selection back with a bang.”
Committee has named Jasprit
There is no health advisory in
TBumrah as captain for the up- place for Indian players currently in
coming Test and Rishabh Pant as his England for the fifth and final Test of
deputy as Rohit Sharma has tested the series which advises them to prac-
positive for COVID-19. The fifth and tice with low intensity due to fears of
final Test against India will take place COVID-19.
from July 1 onwards in Edgbaston. “There is no such kind of info
Pacer Jasprit Bumrah, India’s
captain for the fifth and final Test about medical guidance to play with
the low intensity he is a player who
against England at Edgbaston termed can play big shots bluntly and he can’t
his appointment as skipper as a “big play with low intensity,” he said.
achievement” and “big honour”.
Sharma further said, “He left
the captaincy on his own because he
“It is a big achievement, a big wants to enjoy his cricket. And by re-
honour. Playing Test cricket laxing a bit, he wants to concentrate
more on his batting. And I have full
was my dream and getting an hope that the way he is playing he will
opportunity like this is a huge perform well.”
Talking about the upcoming Test
achievement for me. I am very match against England, Sharma said,
happy on being given this op- Jasprit Bumrah will lead India in the crucial Test (ANI) “Look, this test match is going to be
quite tough. Because England is a
portunity,” said Bumrah during very strong team. But our team is also
a press conference. said that the side wants to focus on an England side riding high on mo- good and right now the Indian team’s
its own job. “We do not want to think mentum under the new leadership of morale is also very high because we
too much about the opposition. We coach Brendon McCullum and cap- are leading the series. And I hope In-
The star pacer said that nothing
changes for him as skipper. know our strengths. If we do our job tain Ben Stokes. dia will do better and win this series.”
well, we believe we can win in any
“You have to do your job to the KOHLI’S COACH HOPEFUL OF A ANDERSON RETURNS AS
best of your ability. This is what I am condition or place. We want to give COMEBACK ENGLAND NAME TEAM
more attention to ourselves. We have
looking forward to doing. We have our plans and we will focus on what
a very good team. We have a lot of we need to do. Joe Root is in an ndia batter Virat Kohli’s child- ngland men have named their
experienced players. I have a lot of amazing form,” he added. hood coach Rajkumar Sharma playing XI for the rescheduled
players who were there to help me Bumrah said that Virat Kohli Isaid that the former India cap- Efifth Test against India starting
out. I am looking forward to helping and Rohit Sharma are leaders and tain will play a great inning in the last at Edgbaston on Friday.
the team to the best of my abilities, play a massive role. “I take advice and final Test match against England. The Three Lions make one
understand where the game is head- from everyone. I try to learn from The rescheduled fifth Test is count- change to the side that won the third
ing and contribute to the best of my every senior player but do what my ed as the fifth match of India’s 2021 Test against New Zealand at Head-
abilities,” he added. instincts say,” he added. series in England, which the visitors ingley, with James Anderson return-
Bumrah said that the side is fo- lead by 2-1. The fifth Test was post- ing to the side in place of Jamie Over-
The rescheduled match is a
cused more on its preparations rather part of last year’s five-match Test se- poned at the last minute following a ton, despite Overton’s vital 97 on
than thinking about the ball and how ries that had to be delayed after the COVID-19 outbreak in 2021. Test debut at Headingley last week.
it is going to behave. “The wicket in fourth Test due to a COVID-19 out- “Virat Kohli was in good form Ben Foakes has been ruled out after
Leicester was different and this is a break in the Indian camp. India led against England before the Test se- failing to recover in time from the
different wicket,” he added. the series 2-1. ries was rescheduled. So, I hope that COVID diagnosis that caused him
Questioned on England’s fine he will continue this form for a long to miss the second half of England’s
India is on the brink of securing
form in their recent Test and ODI their first Test series victory in En- time. So that he can smash a century seven-wicket victory.
showing against New Zealand and gland since 2007. However, they face and end the of everyone’s anticipa- India is on the brink of securing
Netherlands respectively, the pacer tion,” Rajkumar Sharma told ANI. Continued at next page... >>

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