Team India from return to training before the first Test of the Antilles; Three Senior Players rested | Cricket news

Less than 48 hours after raising the Asian Cup, the India test squad was back in training for the first of the two tests against the Antilles, starting on Thursday in Ahmedabad. Three senior players received a break, while the rest of the team, led by Captain Shubman Gill and coach Gautam Gambhir, spent almost three hours at the Narendra Modi stadium. The short period of execution of the Asian Cup final on Sunday has already emphasized the players’ workload. The session started with light forests before the strikers occupy the nets. Among them, the openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Kl Rahul seemed commonly, as was the counter Dhruv Jurel, who was recently captain of India A. Intermediate Options B Sai Sudharsan and Devdutt Padikkal also seemed solid. Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel missed the session to rest. Gill, however, endured a test time. The skipper was confronted with a few close calls, bordering deliveries of Pacers and specialists from Throwdown. At one point, a rising ball hit its gloves near the chest height. Despite the challenges, Gill continued to turn between the nets to deal with the pace, the rotation and the redouments in his preparation for what will be his first home test as a captain. Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna, Fresh from India, a duty against Australia A, pointed spells of almost 45 minutes each. Gambhir, who inspected the ground upon arrival, returned to another glance once the training ended. The only real question of selection for India seems to be the additional slit in the dough. Devdutt Padikkal, leaving 150 in the first unofficial test against Australia A, looked in a simple touch in the nets. Nitish Reddy, who also impressed by the ball alongside Siraj and Prasidh, offers a sewing option.

The rest of the programming seems to be settled, with Raviund Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Siraj and Bumrah who expected to form the nucleus, while the recent form of Kuldeep Yadav makes him a potential key weapon against one side of the Antilles short of experience in Indian conditions. The Antilles, on the other hand, had to cut their outdoor office due to the rain and formed inside for barely half an hour.