India's new Test captain Shubman Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir seem to have made up their minds to counter England batters in the upcoming away five-Test series without ace speedster Jasprit Bumrah. Considering Bumrah’s workload management, it’s not clear exactly how many Tests he will play on this England tour which gets underway with the opening fixture at Leeds on June 20.    

During a pre-departure media interaction, at the BCCI’s headquarters at Wankhede on Thursday, both Gill and Gambhir, stressed that the team is equipped with a good bowling line-up. “I think we have picked enough bowlers, enough pace battery. A lot of our fast bowlers are in a great space to be able to win us Test matches in any conditions and from any position. When you have a fast bowler like Bumrah, whenever he comes and plays, it’s a great boost for us,” Gill said in reply to a question by mid-day on how they were looking to approach things given Bumrah’s unavailability for all the Tests in England.
Whenever Bumrah is unavailable in England, Gill and Gambhir will have to pick from pacers Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep and Arshdeep Singh.

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