BCCI has announced a 15-member squad for the upcoming five-match Test series against England starting June 20.
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00:00Shubman Nil Captain, Shappanth Wicket Keeper and Vice Captain,
00:09Yashashvi Jaiswal, K.L. Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanyu Ishwaran, Karun Nair, Nitesh Kumar Reddy,
00:27Ravindra Jaleja, Dhruv Jurel, the second wicket keeper, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur,
00:41Jaspreet Bumrah, Muhammad Siraj, Prasid Krishna, Akash Deep, Ashdeep Singh,
00:57and Kuldeep Yadav. It's an 18-man squad. Obviously you discuss every option that's there.
01:08I think over the last year or so we've looked at Shubman at various times, I think even when we played England last year,
01:17you take a lot of feedback sometimes from the dressing room as well. Obviously he's very young but we've seen the improvement.
01:24I know it's T20 cricket for GT as well but you take feedback from a lot of people and we're hopeful that he's the guy who can…
01:33it's obviously going to be like it always is a high pressure job but we're hopeful that he's…
01:38we've picked the right guy. I mean he's a terrific player and our best wishes to him.
01:45Number 4, look I think Gigi and Shubman might probably take a call on that once they get there so I don't want to sit here and give a batting order.
01:56But once they get there I think they'll probably have a think about that or have a chat about it.
02:03So he's had, we've watched him, tall guy again, hopefully with the Duke ball, like you said there's variety but there's also body of work in the red ball cricket.
02:14And he's been in decent form over the last year, couple of years. So yeah, someone once they've played in those conditions,
02:23know it well, the ball is just a quality bowler. There's no other reason.
02:28We've needed five seamers to go. I mean obviously Booms is unlikely to play all five test matches.
02:35So we needed adequate cover. This provides us with a little bit of variety as well.
02:38So now he's more because he's a quality bowler.