India vs England, 5th Test: Jasprit Bumrah to lead India after Rohit Sharma ruled out due to Covid-19 | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: All the speculation surrounding who will lead India in the fifth match scheduled against England on Friday has finally come to an end after the cricket board of India (BCCI) officially announced that speed spear Jas Ear Bumrah will lead the Indian side since the regular captain Rohit Sharma were excluded due to Covid-19.
Bumrah will be the first since Kapil Dev for captain India in the Cricket Test. India leads a series of five games with a score of 2-1.
Friday’s match that was supposed to be played in Manchester last September was only delayed a few hours before the scheduled start because of Covid-19 concerns at the India camp.

“Rohit Sharma, captain, Indian Cricket Team is excluded from the Thursday Test scheduled with England to be played from Friday. Rohit underwent the RAT Test on Thursday morning and returned a positive result. counted with COVID-19”, the BCCI notice reads.
“All India Senior Selection Committee has appointed Jasearch Bumrah as captain for the upcoming Test and Rishabh Pant as his deputy,” the statement added.
India’s Test Team: Jasosystem Bumrah (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas IyerHanuma Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant (vice captain) (week), KS Bharat (week), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran AshwinShardul Thakur, Mohd Shami, Mohd Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Mayank Agarwal