Watch: Team India hits the ground running: BCCI shares first training visuals

Team India has officially begun preparations for the highly anticipated five-match Test bid against England, and the BCCI offered fans a archetypal glimpse of the enactment done an energising behind-the-scenes video shared connected Sunday.

The visuals captured the Men successful Blue settling into bushed connected English ungraded with a premix of intensity, energy, and camaraderie.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The video, titled “Prep begins. First show of Team India getting into the groove successful England,” opened with Rishabh Pant and caller skipper Shubman Gill walking towards the gates of the iconic Lord’s Cricket Ground alongside enactment staff.

From there, the camera panned to a choky squad huddle — signalling the commencement of a caller epoch nether caput manager Gautam Gambhir and skipper Gill — arsenic the squad geared up to statesman training.Warming up the English way, the players took to a airy shot league connected the outfield, with Pant peculiarly animated, seen sprinting with the ball. Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, alongside Prasidh Krishna, was seen doing sprint drills, portion spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja joined Gill successful moving exercises. Throwing drills followed, with Arshdeep Singh besides spotted successful a focused one-on-one with Gambhir.WATCH:

A time prior, the BCCI had shared visuals of the team’s accomplishment successful the UK.

The temper was airy yet purposeful, highlighted by a humorous speech wherever Bumrah quipped, “Raat maine bande ne chasme pahne huwe hai” (The feline is wearing shades astatine night), moments earlier Gill was seen walking successful benignant with his sunglasses indoors.Youngster Sai Sudharsan echoed the upbeat temper of the squad successful the accomplishment clip: “Excited to beryllium portion of the Indian Test team... Welcome to the UK,” helium smiled.The five-match bid besides kicks disconnected India’s run successful the 2025–27 ICC World Test Championship cycle. With icons similar Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and R Ashwin stepping distant from Tests, this marks a important generational displacement for Indian cricket.

The Tests volition beryllium played astatine Headingley (June 20), Edgbaston, Lord’s, The Oval, and Old Trafford — iconic English venues steeped successful cricketing tradition.Meanwhile, members of the extended squad are already warming up successful England with India A, who are presently facing the England Lions successful a 2nd unofficial Test astatine Northampton.

India's Test squad for England series

Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, and Kuldeep Yadav.