Gill was appointed as skipper Rohit Sharma's deputy in the ICC Champions Trophy squad announced on Saturday. This comes after the young batter had a poor Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series against Australia, scoring just 93 runs in five innings at an average of 18.60. Previously, during the Sri Lanka tour held last year, Gill was deputy to T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit in ODIs.