Updated On: 05 July, 2025 07:34 AM IST | Birmingham | PTI
“It’s that competitive energy that Virat brought to the Test team. He just brought that buzz and that intensity that you require,” he added

Michael Vaughan
It would take the combined might of new Test captain Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant to take the Indian Test team forward in the absence of Virat Kohli, who did the job “single-handedly” in his prime, feels former England captain Michael Vaughan.
The Indian batting line-up seems to have moved on rather smoothly from Kohli and Rohit Sharma going by the performances so far in the Test series against England but Vaughan, in an interview to PTI, said a good start does not mean that the task has been accomplished.
“They [Gill, Jaiswal and Pant] now have to drag this Indian Test team forward like Virat did single-handedly. There’s a group of them that I see that play the game the right way,” said the cricketer-turned-commentator.