The Indian cricket team is going through a tough phase in Test cricket recently after losing a home series for the first-time in 12 years against New Zealand. They also suffered three straight Test defeats in Bengaluru, Pune, and Mumbai inside three weeks, getting whitewashed for the first-time at home in a three-match series 0-3 at the hands of the Black Caps, who had won only two Tests in 55 years prior to that in India.
The performances of the four senior players, namely captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Ravindra Jadeja, was far from satisfactory versus New Zealand, which put a massive question mark on their respective futures in Test cricket. With that, in this article, SportsTiger looks at players who could end up replacing BIG 4 of Indian cricket in the Test format.
Shubman Gill for Virat Kohli
Shubman Gill is regarded by many as the ‘Prince’ of Indian cricket with a hope that he will be taking over from the ‘King’ Virat Kohli in all formats of the game in Indian colours someday. Gill has been consistently improving with his performances in Tests in the last year or so, playing a few key innings in tricky situations, while Kohli hasn’t been able to find his midas touch in the longest format of the game for quite some time, which could mean that his time in red-ball cricket comes to a close quicker than initially thought.
