Ricky Ponting believes India can replace Virat, Rohit in five-match series

Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting believes India has the capableness to efficaciously negociate the modulation pursuing the Test status of cricket stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, arsenic the squad prepares for their upcoming five-Test bid against England starting June 20 astatine Leeds done August 2025.The new-look Indian Test team, led by Shubman Gill, volition look the situation of proving themselves successful English conditions without their experienced veterans. The squad has included caller endowment from home cricket and IPL, including Dhruv Jurel, Karun Nair, Abhimanyu Easwaran, and Sai Sudharsan.

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"It is ever precise hard to regenerate players similar that that person been astir for truthful long, that person played that overmuch Test cricket. But if immoderate state tin bash it and bash it quickly, India tin due to the fact that of the magnitude of young endowment that they have," Ponting said successful the ICC Review.

"I person seen it firsthand for 10 years astir the IPL, and we person seen the emergence of (Yashasvi) Jaiswal and these sorts of guys who person travel into planetary cricket with India and done truly good beauteous overmuch consecutive away," helium added.

"The accomplishment broadside of it is 1 happening to replace, and I deliberation India volition regenerate the accomplishment broadside of it easy enough, but the acquisition is the large happening that volition beryllium missing for them. So now, adjacent with a young skipper with Shubman Gill, they volition inactive person immoderate acquisition with KL Rahul and (Jasprit) Bumrah and these benignant of guys," Ponting continued.

"But I deliberation if you look astatine a rebuilding benignant of phase, I deliberation India tin header with it amended than astir different teams," helium concluded.Rohit Sharma announced his status from Test cricket past month, ending a vocation that began against West Indies successful November 2013. He appeared successful 67 Tests, accumulating 4,301 runs astatine an mean of 40.57, including 12 centuries and 18 fifties, with a highest people of 212.Rohit's Test vocation saw a important revival with the instauration of the ICC World Test Championship.

In 40 Tests during the WTC era, helium scored 2,716 runs astatine an mean of 41.15, with 9 centuries and 8 fifties, establishing himself arsenic India's starring run-scorer successful WTC history.Quiz: Who's that IPL player?Virat Kohli, who made his Test debut against West Indies successful 2011, besides bid farewell to the format precocious done an Instagram post. He amassed 9,230 runs astatine an mean of 46.85 successful 123 Tests, including 30 centuries and 31 fifties, ranking arsenic India's fourth-highest run-getter successful Tests.As India's astir palmy Test captain, Kohli led the squad to 40 victories successful 68 matches. His enactment was marked by processing India's accelerated bowling endowment and fostering a competitory squad civilization focused connected fittingness and assertive cricket.The squad volition present trust connected a premix of emerging endowment and experienced players similar KL Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah arsenic they participate this caller signifier successful English conditions.