Gurnoor Brar has got a chance in Team IndiaImage Credit source: PTI

The Indian team has been announced for one test match and 3 ODI series against Afghanistan. This series will start with the Test match from June 6, immediately after the IPL 2026 season. Some new faces have also been given a chance for both these series and one of them is Gurnoor Brar, who has been selected in Team India for the first time. And that too not only in Test, but he has also been given a chance in the ODI team. But who is Gurnoor and why has he been selected in Team India?

25-year-old Gurnoor Brar is a left-arm fast bowler, who plays in the domestic circuit for the Punjab cricket team. Gurnoor is known for his tall height along with good speed. Gurnoor, who is about 6 feet 5 inches tall, has impressed a lot for Punjab in the Ranji Trophy, due to which he has got a chance to play for India A as well. Gurnoor has taken 52 wickets in 18 first class matches at an average of 27, while he has taken 12 wickets in 9 List-A matches.

In fact, his bowling style and his tall height are a big reason for this. Team India has not had any left arm fast bowler in the Test format for a long time.

Besides, his tall height can also help in this. South African fast bowler Marco Johnson is an example of this, who is a left-arm pacer and creates problems for the batsmen by taking advantage of his tall height. In such a situation, Team India is also trying Gurnoor to give a new look to its bowling attack.

The story of Gurnoor reaching here is also special.

After this, the attention of IPL teams also got towards him and he became a net bowler in Punjab Kings. Here he also impressed Shikhar Dhawan with his bowling.

After this, on the request of Shubman Gill, he became a net bowler in Gujarat Titans and then the team signed him in 2025. He has not got a chance to play for Gujarat in the last two seasons but now it seems that Gill is very impressed with him and it is on his advice that Gurnoor has got a place in Test and ODI.

Sumit Sundriyal

Presently I am working as Assistant News Editor (Sports) in TV9 Hindi (Sports 9). Reaching here started from 2009, when I took admission in Mass Media Honors Course (2009-12) at Jamia Millia Islamia. Then in 2013, he completed Post-Graduation Diploma in Hindi Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication. It was from here in 2013 that he entered professional journalism for the first time and first made a place in News 18 India TV channel. Before taking entry in digital journalism, he spent about 6 years in the TV industry, where he worked on the assignment desk. While at the assignment desk, gathering information is the most important task and it is the responsibility to check every aspect of that news and take it forward. Did the same thing while working at News 18 India. After this, the fascination with sports and sports news turned towards digital journalism and a new journey began. It started during IPL 2019, when Quint joined Hindi. After writing sports news with Quint for a year, he established a relationship with TV9 Hindi to achieve a new position in this work. For the last 3 years, I have been bringing every small, big, serious and funny sports news to you here and am constantly trying to present it in a better way.

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