The squad, announced on Wednesday, includes one new face in Stuart Binny. Uncapped pacers Pankaj Singh and Ishwar Pandey also find themselves in the 18-man squad.
It is a fairly inexperienced squad with only three players from the squad – MS Dhoni, Gambhir, Ishant Sharma – having played Tests in England before. Wriddhiman Saha has been picked as the back-up wicket-keeper to Dhoni.
Surprisingly, the selectors have decided to go with only two specialist spinners in Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin.
Gambhir last played for India back in December 2012. It’ll be interesting to see if he is drafted into XI directly, or is used a back-up for Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay.
Dhoni’s men will be hoping to better the performance from 2011, when India were whitewashed in a 4-match Test series. The first Test is scheduled to start on July 9 at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
Full squad:
MS Dhoni (c), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Gautam Gambhir, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishwar Pandey, Ishant Sharma, Stuart Binny, Varun Aaron, Wriddhiman Saha, Pankaj Singh
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