Former Australian cricketer picks his captain for India

India take on England at the Edgbaston in the fifth and final test of the series, commencing 1st July.

With Rohit Sharma facing a race against time to be fit for the 5th Test Match, former Australian cricketer Brad Hogg has his say on India’s captaincy issue.

India’s current test captain, Rohit Sharma, returned a 2nd positive COVID-19 test. This has more or less, ruled him out of the last and crucial test match for India vs England.

Vice-captain KL Rahul has had a successful surgery today and will miss the match commencing at Edgbaston on 1st July.

India currently lead the long on-going series 2-1.

Jasprit Bumrah has been rumoured to take over the captaincy reigns from Rohit Sharma but, Brag Hogg has picked former Indian captain, Virat Kohli to lead the team out.

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 But for former Australia spinner Brad Hogg, there is only one name and that’s Virat Kohli, speaking on his YouTube channel

“One Test to go in this series and it’s taken a year to complete but India are on the back foot going in to this Test match. England are on a roll, they have just smashed New Zealand and now India have got their headaches. Rahul the vice-captain is injured. Rohit is on the bed sick with Covid. Will he get up for this Test match? If he doesn’t who is going to captain?” said former Australia cricketer.

“There’s been talk about Bumrah. But for me, it’s got to be Kohli. He started this series as captain, he should finish the series off as captain. Don’t give it to someone else. It is 2-1 to India at the moment. So, give Virat Kohli the rights to be able to defend this title and defend the series by leading his team to victory in this final Test match,” added the former left-arm wrist spinner.

India are on the verge of rewriting history and many pip the former Indian Captain Virat Kohli to lead them out one last time.