India's new captain announced for BGT 2024, Gambhir removed Rohit Sharma and handed over the responsibility to this veteran

Rohit Sharma: Team India's biggest test of this year is about to start. Team India has to tour Australia. For which Team India has also reached Australia, but Team India may get a shock even before that.

Team India captain Rohit Sharma may not be seen playing in the first match to be held in Perth. Let us tell you that the first match between Australia and India is to be played in Perth from November 22.

Rohit Sharma may miss the first test of BGT 2024

If media reports are to be believed, Team India captain Rohit Sharma may miss the first Test to be held in Perth due to family reasons. If everything goes as expected, Rohit Sharma can first join the team before the second Test match to be held in Adelaide. In the absence of Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah can be made the captain of the team.

Jasprit Bumrah can captain in BGT 2024

Let us tell you that Rohit Sharma was appointed captain for the Border Gavaskar series while Jasprit Bumrah was made the vice-captain. So if Rohit cannot play in the first Test, then Jasprit Bumrah can be seen captaining in his place. This will not be the first time that Bumrah is captaining the Test team.

Even before this, Bumrah has captained in Tests. Bumrah captained the last Test match against England in 2022. Team India had to face a crushing defeat in that match. England chased the mountainous target of 378 runs by losing just two wickets. In that match, captain Rohit Sharma could not play the match due to Kovid.

India's probable playing XI for Perth Test

KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Dhruv Jurel, Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah (captain), Akashdeep, Prasidh Krishna