New Delhi, May 13 -- Jasprit Bumrah has received backing to be the next skipper of the Indian Test team from former India off-spinner R Ashwin.

The sudden retirements of captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have created a leadership vaccum in the Test team and the Chennai Super Kings spinner feels Bumrah is the right person to lead India in the tour of England.

On his YouTube show 'Ash ki Baat', he said: "I didn't have an idea both (Rohit and Kohli) would retire together. This will a testing time for Indian cricket, and I'll say this is truly now the beginning of the Gautam Gambhir era.

"The team that will tour England will be a completely new team, a transformed team where Bumrah will probably be the senior-most player. He is obviousl...