Delhi: There is no dearth of stories of strange and surprising decisions of selectors and team management in Indian cricket. Another story is joining in the name of Abhimanyu Ishwar. Abhimanyu Ishwaran is waiting for a place in the playing XI for the Test and despite a long injury list, he did not have a place in the fourth Test playing XI against England. If a player is in the team for the tour or series, then it clearly means that in the eyes of the selectors, the player has a talent and temperament to play Test. Even then, if you do not get a place in the playing XI for years, it will be surprising.

Abhimanyu Ishwan is waiting since 2022

Abhimanyu Ishwaran came to the Indian team from 2022 but could not make a place in the playing XI even once. The result is that the wait for Test debut is going on. Abhimanyu was in the race to replace Karun Nair in Manchester, Bengal, but Sai Sudarshan returned and he is sitting on the bench again. In this Test, Anshul Kamboj, who was not even in the team selected for the Test series, made his debut. Seeing Sai, in the case of Abhimanyu Ishwar, it can be said that the famous IPL 2025 won and the record of domestic cricket was left behind. Meanwhile, Abhimanyu Ishwaran has a total of 103 first class matches with a total of 7841 runs with 27 centuries and 31 fifties. Prior to the current Test series, he scored 11 and 80 runs in Northampton against England Lions for India A.

15 players debut in front of Ishwaran

While in this series, after being out of Sai playing XI in this series, without any new match records returned to the playing XI, Abhimanyu did not make any place for Ishwar. Not a single chance has been found in the last three series. You can also write this fact in such a way that 15 players made their debut for India in front of Abhimanyu Ishwaran, their debut number did not come.

Abhimanyu Ishwaran was first included in India’s Test team after Rohit Sharma’s injury for a two -Test series against Bangladesh in December 2022. Did not play Tests and KL Rahul’s team won 2–0. Since then the wait has still continued. After Rohit Sharma, Ishwaran was in the race to become India’s Test opener, but this opportunity also came out due to good form since Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul’s 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

These players debut

• KS Bharat and Suryakumar Yadav debuted in the first Test of the 2023 Border-Gavaskar Trophy (VCA Stadium in Nagpur).
• Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ishaan Kishan played their first Test against the West Indies in Rauseu on July 2023.
• Mukesh Kumar made his debut in Port of Spain on July 2023.
• The famous Krishna played his first Test against South Africa at Supersport Park in Centurion in December 2023.
• Rajat Patidar made his debut against England in Visakhapatnam in February 2024.
• Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurael made their debut against England in Rajkot in February 2024.
• Akash Deep came in the Test rank in Ranchi in the same series.
• Devdutt played his first Test at Padikkal Dharamshala.
• Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana made a Test debut against Australia at the Optus Stadium in Perth in November 2024.
• Sai Sudarshan played a Test against England in Leeds on June 2025.
• Now in this series, Anshul Kamboj entered the Test team for the first time.

Interestingly, only Jaiswal has become regular Test players out of these 15 players. He is in a regular Test team since his debut. One more special thing, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli retired since I was first in Ishwaran’s Test team, while Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane are out of regular teams. The best of these was when Rohit Sharma made a place, but Jaiswal cashed the opportunity at that time. For Ishwaran, another series is showing them the way out. Will you finally get a test cap?