Team India: Team India is currently playing the ODI series against Sri Lanka. After playing the ODI series against Sri Lanka, the team has to play series with many teams before the T20 World Cup 2026. Meanwhile, both the cricket boards have decided to organize a series of 2 Test matches between Team India and South Africa.

According to media reports, the Test series against South Africa can be organized in the month of December 2025. According to media reports related to this series, 5 veteran players including Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma will be left out of the Team India squad selected for this series.

Shubhaman Gill can become the captain of Team India for Africa Test series

The current Test captain of Team India, Rohit Sharma, is now 37 years old. In such a situation, it is believed that Rohit Sharma may decide to retire from Test cricket after the England Test series next year.

In the absence of Rohit Sharma, it is believed that Shubman Gill may be seen taking up the responsibility as the Test captain of Team India.

5 great players including Rohit-Virat can be dropped

The 2 Test match series against South Africa is going to be held in the month of December 2025. According to the media reports coming in, the selection committee at that time can remove 5 veteran Indian players currently playing Test cricket for Team India from the Test cricket team and give a chance to young players to play in their place.

The list of those 5 players may include the names of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul.

Team India's probable team squad for South Africa Test series

Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Devdutt Padikkal, Dhruv Jurel, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Mohammed Siraj, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep and Sai Sudarshan