India, Jan. 10 -- Shubman Gill wants India's Test cricket to be treated like a proper project, not a last-minute preparation.

In a recent press conference, the Indian captain revealed that he has already flagged a key fix to the BCCI: to build dedicated red-ball preparation time into the schedule, especially when the team is jumping between formats and countries.

"One of the suggestions that I was very keen on is, if you would see in the last two Test series that we played, we didn't have much time to prepare," said Gill.

His core argument is about turnaround stress, the kind that doesn't show up on scorecards but hits technique, bodies, and planning. He underlined how brutal it is to finish one assignment and be expected to be match-r...