Team India: Team India has to play 5-match Border Gavaskar Series against Australia in January 2027. After this series, many veteran Indian players may retire from Tests while some new emerging faces may get a chance in this series. This could also be the last Test series at home for India’s legendary batsmen Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, after which these players can retire.
Mayank Dagar and Samit Dravid can debut
Players who may get a chance to debut in this series include Rahul Dravid’s son Summit Dravid and Virender Sehwag’s nephew Mayank Dagar. Let us tell you that Mayank is a bowling all-rounder who can play the role of Ravindra Jadeja in the future in Tests. Whereas Summit is a top order batsman. However, he is not a very defensive batsman like his father.
If we talk about Mayank’s first class career, so far he has taken 114 wickets in 66 innings of 39 matches at an average of 29.68 and strike rate of 57.0. In which he has taken more than 5 wickets in an innings 4 times in his career. If we talk about his batting, so far he has scored 978 runs in 53 innings of 39 matches at an average of 20.80, which includes 6 half-centuries.
Mayank can play the role of Jadeja
Mayank is also a very good fielder and if he does well in domestic cricket, he can play the role of Ravindra Jadeja in future. Mayank plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL. Although Summit’s career has just started and he was recently selected in the Under 19 team but due to injury he could not play the match. The summit took part in the Cooch Behar Trophy in which the Karnataka team won the trophy.
India’s team for Border Gavaskar Trophy 2027 –
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Dhruv Jurel, Sarfaraz Khan, Mayank Dugar, Summitt Dravid, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Akashdeep, Mohammed Siraj.
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