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New Delhi: Team India Squad Announcement The Indian team has been announced for the five-match Test series against England starting next month. The selection committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the 18-member team. Along with this the new captain of Indias Test team has also been announced as regular captain Rohit Sharma retired from Test cricket earlier this month. In such a situation now the new Test captain of the team will be Shubman Gill whose tenure is going to start from next month. At the same time Rishabh Pant has been appointed as the vice-captain of the team. Rohit Sharma Virat Kohli and R Ashwin are no longer part of the Test team as Ashwin announced his retirement during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy while earlier this month Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli also announced their retirement from this format of the game. This is the reason why you will also see some new faces in this team while the old players have returned. The oldest name among them is Karun Nair who is the second batsman to score a triple century for India in Test cricket. Indias Test team is as follows Shubman Gill (captain) Rishabh Pant (vice-captain) Yashasvi Jaiswal KL Rahul Sai Sudarshan Abhimanyu Easwaran Karun Nair Nitish Kumar Reddy Ravindra Jadeja Dhruv Jurel Washington Sundar Shardul Thakur Jaspreet Bumrah Mohammad Siraj Prasidh Krishna Akashdeep Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav Indias tour of England will start from June 20. This will be Indias first Test series under the ICC World Test Championship 2025-27. The first match will be played in Leeds from June 20 to 24 while the second match will be held in Birmingham from July 2. In the third match both the teams will clash at Lords in London from July 10 to July 14. At the same time the fourth match of this series will be played in Manchester from 23 to 27 July. The final match between India and England is to be played at Kennington Oval in London from 31 July to 4 August. At the beginning of this tour the Indian team also has to play a warm-up match which may be against India A or against England Lions which will be played between 13 and 16 June. Full schedule of India vs England Test Series First Test - 20 to 24 June - in Leeds Second Test - 2 to 6 July - in Birmingham Third Test - 10 to 14 July - in Lords Fourth Test - 23 to 27 July - in Manchester Fifth Test - 31 July to 4 August - in London