Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir According to Toi, he will return to England on Tuesday (June 17) and link with the team.
The former India batsman had to return home last week due to a family medicine emergency as his mother suffered a heart attack and was in the ICU. He left the team and returned home last Wednesday (June 11). Although his mother is still in the hospital, Gambhir has decided to re -include the team for national duty.
Other India coaches took charge in the absence of Gambhir
While Gautam Gambhir was in India, assistant coaches Satanshu Kotak, Ryan Ten Dotte, and Morne Morkel took over the team for a four-day Intra-Squad game against India at Bekenham.
With the first Test in Leeds on June 20, Gautam Gambhir has only a few days to fix the preparations. The Indian team management was struggling with several selection dilemmas after the retirement of stallwarts like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Shardul Thakur impressed with the bat in the intra-squad game
Players performance in The Intra-Squad game is likely to play an important role in the selection of the team for the first Test. According to reports, KL Rahul and Shubman Gill hit the fifties in a day of the game, before Sarfaraz Khan scored a century off just 76 balls for India A. A. A.
Three days, Shardul Thakur impressed with the bat, the team management scored 122 runs before deciding to call the game.
An important series for Gautam Gambhir and Team India
The series against England will be a very important not only for Team India but also for Gautam Gambhir.
The head coach faced serious criticism in the last season after facing a disappointing series against New Zealand and Australia.
Those two defeats also make the team in the World Test Championship final. After the horrific show, calls were also made to sack Gautam Gambhir as a test coach from several quarters. The former cricketer may be expecting that the team performs well against England.
The series will also mark the beginning of a new journey for the Indian team. With Captain Rohit Sharma and experienced batsman Virat Kohli Shubman Gill will lead the team against England, announcing his test retirement last month. India has not won a test series in England since 2007 and a famous series will look at the victory.
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