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Gill To Bumrah: 7 IND Test Players With Captaincy Debut In ENG

Somak Adhikari

Captaincy debut

Of the 37 players to lead India in Tests, seven have made their captaincy debut in England.

7) Shubman Gill (2025)

Gill led India for the first time in the Leeds Test in the current series.

6) Jasprit Bumrah (2022)

Bumrah's captaincy debut was in Birmingham in the last game of the series that had been rescheduled.

5) Datta Gaekwad (1959)

Gaekwad was handed the captaincy for the tour to England.

4) Pankaj Roy (1959)

Roy led India in just one Test which was on English soil.

3) Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi (1946)

Pataudi finally got to lead the country of his birth and he did it on the soil of the country he once represented.

2) Vijaya Anand (1936)

Anand replaced CK Nayudu as skipper for this series.

1) CK Nayudu (1932)

Nayudu's captaincy debut in England was the debut of the entire Indian team as it was the nation's first-ever Test.

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