Rajasthan Royals players Yashasvi Jaiswal and Dhruv Jurel have been named in the 19-member Indian cricket team for the upcoming five-match away Test series against England, starting from June 20.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the squad on Saturday.
India will face England in the first Test match at Headingley, starting from June 20. The next two matches, starting on July 2 and 10, respectively, are scheduled at Edgbaston and the Lord’s
After a brief break, the five-match series will resume at Old Trafford on July 23 before the final rubber at The Oval, starting from July 31.
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The Indian men’s cricket team will be chasing a first Test series win on English soil since the historic triumph in 2007 under the captaincy of current RR coach Rahul Dravid. India won the three-match series 1-0 back then.
India came close in 2021, their last visit, but the series ended in a 2-2 draw.
Interestingly, both Jaiswal and Jurel, along with Royals pacer Tushar Deshpande, were also selected in the India A team for the tour to England. Jurel will be the vice-captain of the squad.
The India A team will play multiple first-class matches in England from May 30 to June 6, giving Jaiswal and Jurel an opportunity to acclimatise to the conditions.
Yashasvi Jaiswal is coming off a sensational IPL 2025 season with the bat as he top-scored for RR with 559 runs from 14 matches. Jurel notched up 333 in as many games.
Jaiwal also enjoyed a brilliant campaign with the national team in 2024. His tally of 1478 runs is the second-most by an Indian and the most by an Indian opener in any calendar year.
The young opener ended the year as the second-highest scorer in red ball cricket behind England’s Joe Root, who scored 1556 runs from 17 matches.
Scoring at an average of 54.74 and a strike rate of almost 70, Jaiswal hit 36 sixes in 2024, a new world record for a calendar year. He was later named in the ICC Men's Test Team of the Year 2024.
Dhruv Jurel, meanwhile, has featured in four Test matches for India so far - three against England and one against Australia - and boasts of a highest score of 90 against England in Ranchi. He currently averages 40.40 in red ball cricket.
He also made a strong impression during an unofficial Test against Australia A in Melbourne last year, scoring 80 and 68. Jurel made his international debut in a T20I against Zimbabwe last year.
The England vs India series will also mark the beginning of the 2025-27 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle.
India vs England 2025 Test series squad
India cricket team: Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper/vice captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wicket-keeper), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav
