Not Shubman Gill or Jasprit Bumrah, Virender Sehwag believes only this player can 'compel fans into watching Test cricket' after Virat Kohli's retirement

“What Pant did for Test cricket, no other player has done. After Virat Kohli, if there is one player who has compelled fans into watching Test cricket, it’s Pant. But because he had that accident, got injured and then came back, he did not have that much of an impact, and hence he was made the vice-captain, thinking that if he can bounce back to form, they can take that decision of making him the captain in the future. But there are very few bowlers who are made the captain. In my career, it was just Anil Kumble, who loved the format, was available and was a certainty in the XI,” Sehwag said on Cricbuzz.

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Pant has been rewarded with vice-captaincy for the upcoming five-Test match series against England, where Shubman Gill will lead the Men in Blue in whites. The upcoming five-Test match series against England is scheduled to start from June 20. 

India squad for England series

Shubman Gill(C), Rishabh Pant(vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Parishdh Krishna, Akashdeep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav