India, May 24 -- Indian cricket entered a new era on Saturday as the BCCI announced the squad for the upcoming five-match Test series in England, confirming Shubman Gill as the new Test captain. The announcement has formally kick-started a generational shift in India's red-ball cricket; for the first time in over a decade, the Test squad features neither Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, nor Ravichandran Ashwin, all of whom bid farewell to the format within the last six months.

Gill, 25, takes over the reins from Rohit Sharma, who called time on his 11-year Test career earlier this month after playing 67 Tests and scoring over 4,300 runs. Kohli had stunned the cricketing world with his retirement roughly a week later, bringing to a close an ill...