It has been almost a year since Shubman Gill took over the captaincy of the Indian Test team. After the retirement of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in May 2025, Shubman Gill was given the captaincy of the Test team. After that, Gill captained Team India on the England tour and then in the series against West Indies and South Africa.
The Indian team could not play the final of the World Test Championship 2025. At that time Team India was in third place. But after Shubman Gill became the captain, the Test team has reached a worse condition. The situation is such that India is currently at sixth position in the table of World Test Championship 2025-27. See here how Gill has performed as captain after ROKO’s retirement.
Team India is breathless
Shubman Gill has captained Team India in a total of 8 test matches so far. In them the team has registered 4 wins, lost three matches and one was a draw. Gill’s winning percentage as captain is 57.14. These figures do not seem too bad, but Gill’s captaincy record in terms of series wins is very bad.
Gill started his captaincy journey with the England tour. Gill captained all the matches of that series. When Team India went to England under his captaincy and drew the series 2-2, Gill was praised a lot. After that India defeated the weak West Indies team 2-0. Even here, there was no stain on Gill’s captaincy.
But when the South African team came to tour India at the end of the year 2025, it defeated India 2-0 in its own home. Especially the second test, India lost by a huge margin. This home series had raised questions on Gill’s captaincy. At the same time, low expectations of reaching the final of the World Test Championship 2027 have also exposed Gill’s captaincy.
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Virat-Rohit’s last test
Virat Kohli played his last Test against Australia in January 2025. Virat Kohli had scored 17 runs and 6 runs in his last test. Whereas Rohit Sharma played his last red ball match in December 2024. Rohit had scored 3 runs and 9 runs in that Boxing Day Test.
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