IMAGE: Head coach Gautam Gambhir will join the Indian squad ahead of the first Test against England at Leeds, starting on June 20. Photograph: BCCI
India head coach Gautam Gambhir is set to leave for England on Monday night to reunite with the team after a family emergency compelled him to return to India, sources told ANI on Monday.
Gambhir had to fly back to India to attend to his mother, who suffered a heart attack and was admitted to an ICU in a New Delhi hospital.
Gambhir will join the Indian squad on Tuesday, three days before the start of the first Test against England at Leeds, from June 20.
The India Test regulars played an intra-squad match against India A in Beckenham to get themselves some much-needed match practice ahead of the five-Test
series against England.
In Gambhir's absence, assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate assumed the team's charge during the intra-squad match, which was called off after the third day's play on Sunday.
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