What are the least number of matches taken to be India's Test captain?
Shubman Gill will lead the squad and Rishabh Pant will be the vice-captain for the England tour.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced an 18-member Indian squad for the upcoming five-match Test series against England, which is set to begin on June 20. Notably, Shubman Gill has been named the new captain of the Indian Test team for the tour after Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from the longest format earlier this month.
This will mean that Gill will lead India in his 33rd Test. The 25-year-old cricketer has so far scored 1893 runs at an average of 35.05 which includes five centuries and seven half-centuries in 32 matches.
The right-handed batter has shown promise since his early cricketing days and served as the vice-captain of the India U-19 team during the 2018 World Cup. Gill made his First-Class debut for Punjab in 2017 and impressed with a half-century and a century in his first match. He made his Test debut against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in 2020.
Least number of matches taken to be India's Test captain
| Players | Number of Matches |
| CK Nayudu | 01 |
| Maharajkumar of Vizianagaram | 01 |
| Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi | 01 |
| Tiger Pataudi | 04 |
| Lala Amarnath | 07 |
| Datta Gaekwad | 07 |
| Vijay Hazare | 14 |
| Ghulam Ahmed | 18 |
| Sunil Gavaskar | 18 |
| Nari Contractor | 20 |
| Hemu Adhikari | 21 |
| Ajit Wadekar | 22 |
| Polly Umrigar | 27 |
| S Venkataraghavan | 28 |
| MS Dhoni | 29 |
| Gulabrai Ramchand | 29 |
| Virat Kohli | 30 |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 30 |
| Vinoo Mankad | 31 |
| Shubman Gill | 33* |
Shubman Gill is set to lead one of the youngest and most inexperienced Indian sides on English soil. He is currently the captain of the Gujarat Titans (GT) in the Indian Premier League (IPL), and guided his team to the playoffs in the 2025 season.
He has had an impressive run with the bat by scoring 636 runs at an average of 57.81 in 13 innings. Gill also served as the vice-captain of the Indian team during their triumphant campaign at the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.
India squad for England series
Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (vice-captain & wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav
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