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The Indian cricket team hasn’t been quite consistent with their results in Test cricket in the last couple of years after Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid took over the reins at the helm, especially overseas. It has led to the Indian team management leaving out senior players from the squad, including the likes of Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma, and Umesh Yadav, among others, to initiate a transition phase in the longest format of the game.
In recent times, the Indian selection committee has picked a few youngsters in the Test squad, leading to some of them gaining instant success, while the others haven’t been quite as impressive. With Gautam Gambhir now taking charge alongside Rohit Sharma in Tests, SportsTiger looks at India’s Test team of the future, which could take the incredible legacy of its predecessors forward in the longest format of the game.
Openers: Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad
Yashasvi Jaiswal has taken to Test cricket like fish to water, said the former Indian coach Ravi Shastri on commentary, to describe his successful first few months in the longest format. The 22-year-old, who scored a debut hundred against West Indies in the Caribbean, took giant strides in the Test format against England, scoring a double hundred in Visakhapatnam, to play a crucial role in India defeating a very formidable opponent.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, 27, is one of the most consistent performers in the Ranji Trophy in the last couple of seasons for Maharashtra. For that very reason, he was picked for the recently concluded Indian Test tour to South Africa, but an injury came at the wrong time, forcing him to miss the series.
