India, May 28 -- India's newest Test captain, Shubman Gill's start of the England tour may not go as planned. Gill has reportedly been pulled out of the India A squad that is slated to play England Lions at Northampton on June 6. Earlier, the Ajit Agarkar-led BCCI senior selection committee had announced that Gill and his IPL teammate Sai Sudharsan would join the India A squad for the second warm-up game. But now that Gujarat Titans, the team Gill leads in the IPL, have qualified for the playoffs this season, the board does not want to go on a last-minute dash and rush Gill for a warm-up match before he leads into the transition phase in the five-Test series starting June 20.

The idea of naming Gill for the second India A vs England Lion...