The Indian team is ready for the five-match Test series against England under the leadership of new Test captain Shubman Gill. India's performance in the red ball format has not been good in the last few months and it had to lose the Test series against New Zealand at home and then in Australia. The new cycle of the World Test Championship (WTC) will begin with the India-England series. This is also the first bilateral series of the Indian team after the retirement of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli from Tests.

Team India reached England.

The Indian team led by Gill reached England on Saturday. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared a video in which members of Team India are seen at the airport. The Indian team will play against England under the captaincy of Shubman Gill. Gill has been made the captain of the Test team in place of Rohit Sharma. Rishabh Pant will be in the role of vice-captain in this series.

The first match will be played in Leeds from June 20
The first Test of the five-match series between India and England will be played in Leeds from June 20. With this series, India's new World Test Championship cycle (2025-27) will also begin. Karun Nair has returned to the Indian team after eight years. Shardul Thakur is also making a comeback in the Indian team. In the video shared by the BCCI of reaching England, the players are seen laughing and joking with each other.

India waiting for a Test series win against England.

Gill is ready for the new responsibility, but the challenge before him is big. Under the leadership of Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir, the Indian Test team has gone through a phase of change and now it has to deliver results. In the absence of experienced batsmen like Rohit and Kohli, it is not going to be easy to defeat England in its home. India's statistics in England are also testifying to this. India has not won any Test series in England since 2007, so the question arising in everyone's mind is whether this Gill-Gambhir pair will be able to end the 18-year drought.

Victory was achieved under Dravid's captaincy.

India last won a Test series against England in their home in 2007 under the captaincy of Rahul Dravid. At that time, India was successful in registering a 1-0 win in the three-match series. Since 2007, the Indian team went on a tour of England four times, but could not taste victory. After winning the ODI World Cup in 2011, India toured England. At that time, the team went to play under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but could not win a single match in the four-match Test series and the host team defeated India by a margin of 4-0.

The spell was not broken even under the captaincy of Dhoni-Kohli.

In 2014, the Indian team again went on a tour of England under the captaincy of Dhoni. This time it had to play a five-match Test series, but the situation did not change and England won the series 3-1. After four years, the Indian team went on a tour of England under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. Under Kohli's leadership, it was expected that the Indian team would be successful in winning, but despite changing the captain, the situation of the team in England did not change and England won the five-match series 4-1.

Team India missed closely on the last tour.

India toured England once again in 2021 and at that time also the command was in the hands of Kohli. The Indian team performed brilliantly in that series and managed to win two out of four matches. At that time it seemed that the Indian team would win this five-match series and the drought of Test series win in England would now end. But the fifth Test was postponed and the last match of the series took place in July 2022. By then Kohli had left the command of the Test team. Jasprit Bumrah was handed the captaincy for the decisive match, but England won the match by seven wickets and leveled the series 2-2. In this way, India's wait to win the Test series in England increased again. Now once again Indian cricket fans hope that Team India will be successful in ending the drought this time in England.

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