The five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) later this year is expected to be India’s toughest challenge in the current 2023-25 ​​World Test Championship (WTC) cycle, scheduled to begin on the 22nd. November.

Captain Rohit Sharma is well aware of this and has expressed his intentions to have deep bench depth for the main series.

In the process, Rohit named three young cricketers, whom the management is considering taking to Australia.

Pacers Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav and all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy are the three fringe players who can be part of India’s team in Australia, according to the captain.

To prepare them, Mayank and Reddy recently made their international debut in the T20I series against Bangladesh. However, Rana was an unused member of that team. Notably, all three players have now been included as roaming reserves for New Zealand’s three-match Test series, which begins tomorrow (October 16).

Rohit Sharma reveals Indian management has been keeping a close watch

Rohit told reporters on the eve of the series opener against New Zealand in Bengaluru:

“You know, the reason we wanted to keep them close to us was because we were thinking about taking them to Australia. We just want to monitor them and see their workload. We’ve seen some talent in them. I understand they haven’t played much red-ball cricket, but when you see a talent, you want to try to groom them.”

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Fast bowler Prasidh Krishna, 28, was also initially named as a roving reserve for the New Zealand Tests, but will unfortunately miss out after he reportedly suffered another injury setback. In Karnataka’s first match of the current Ranji Trophy season against Madhya Pradesh in Indore, he bowled just eight of the 140 overs bowled by his team.

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