The Indian team will start the tour of the West Indies through the Test series. The 2-match test series will start from July 12. The first test will be played in Dominica. In this match, it will be a very difficult task for Indian captain Rohit Sharma to pick the goalkeeper. KS Bharat and Ishaan Kishan have been listed in the Test squad as wicketkeepers.
After Rishabh Pant, the India team had placed their faith in substitute goalkeeper KS Bharat. Bharat made his Test debut this year through the Border-Gavaskar Trophy played in February-March. Although Bharat has not been able to do anything special as a batsman so far. He scored 101 runs while batting in four Border-Gavaskar Trophy matches. During this his highest score was 44 runs.
Apart from this, KS Bharat also had a shot at the recently contested World Test Championship final. There also appeared flop with the bat. He scored just 28 runs in both innings. Seeing this performance by Bharat, such speculation is being made that he may have to warm up the bench in the first Test against the West Indies.
Ishaan Kishan leaves with Indian Test team as backup goalkeeper from KS Bharat’s debut. In such a situation, Ishaan Kishan can make his Test debut through the West Indies tour. Ishaan Kishan’s figures are very good in first-class cricket. At the same time, Ishaan takes an aggressive attitude in hitting. In such a situation, he too can prove useful to the team.
Ishaan has played 48 first-class matches in his career so far, in which he has scored 2,985 runs. During this, 6 centuries have come out of his bat. In such a situation, it is believed that his test debut is safe.
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Rituraj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), KS Bharat (goalkeeper), Ishan Kishan (goalkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Akshar Patel, Mohammed Siraj , Mukesh Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Navdeep Saini.