Who will be India's next Test captain: Jasprit Bumrah or Shubman Gill?

Amidst the debate over who should be appointed as India's new Test captain, former opener Wasim Jaffer said Shubman should lead the Test team whenever Jasprit Bumrah needs rest.

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Gill has been widely seen as a front-runner to lead a new-look Indian Test team in the five match series in England.

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India hasn't won a Test series in England after the 2007 tour, when they won 1-0 under Rahul Dravid's leadership.

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Jaffer wrote, the automatic captaincy choice is Bumrah unless he doesn't want the responsibility, with Gill as VC, stepping in whenever Bumrah needs rest.

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Apart from Gill, Bumrah, KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant are also in the race to be India's next Test captain.

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But with Bumrah's fitness issues, it is not a certainty yet that he will play all five tests on the tour of England.

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