Ravindra Jadeja breaks silence on Test captaincy snub

Promising batter Shubman Gill has been recently appointed as the captain of the Indian Test squad for the upcoming series against England.

In response, veteran all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja said that he would love to be India's Test skipper at some point, having understood the role under different captains throughout his long career.

"Yes, definitely! Over the years, I have played under different captains. I know the mindset of every single captain whom I have played under and I also understand what players need and their mindset," the 36-year-old Jadeja told his former India teammate Ravichandran Ashwin in a YouTube chat when asked whether Test captaincy was among his ambitions.

"Every captain has a different mindset on how he wants to run the team. I have played under MS Dhoni in every format and his thinking is very simple. If he feels that a batter can hit shots in a particular region, he keeps the fielder there to make the batter uncomfortable," the veteran all-rounder further said.

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"In Test cricket, you have to change two or three fielders as per the need of the bowler and you don't need to change the field as per batsmen. Captaincy in Test cricket is way more different. It's simple, but calculative. It's not complicated like IPL or T20s, where every ball is an event," he added.

Earlier, Ashwin had also supported Jadeja for India's Test captaincy once Rohit Sharma called it quits from the red-ball format.