Champions Trophy 2025 India Squad Announcement Live: After a gap of nearly eight years, the ICC Champions Trophy is set to make its return next month. The tournament will feature eight top teams from across the world including India, Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and host Pakistan. So far, six teams have announced their squads for the marquee event. India and Pakistan are expected to reveal their respective squads in the coming few days. The tournament gets underway from February 19 when Pakistan face New Zealand in Karachi. India start their campaign a day later against Bangladesh in Dubai.
The Indian team management is sweating over the fitness of their pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah who suffered back spasms towards the end of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier this month. Rohit Sharma is likely to lead the squad, and the team will face England in a three-match ODI series right before the start of Champions Trophy.
The tournament will be held in Hybrid Model with India playing their matches in Dubai while the rest of the games across various venues in Pakistan including Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi.
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India’s Likely Squad For Champions Trophy 2025: Rohit Captain, Bumrah Uncertain
Form, fitness permitting, this could be the composition of India’s squad unless the selectors throw up a surprise. There’s suspense over Jasprit Bumrah’s availability though.
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami
India Champions Trophy Squad Announcement Live!
Out of the eight teams taking part in the 2025 Champions Trophy, only India and Pakistan are yet to reveal their preliminary squads. Australia, England, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and South Africa have submitted their provisional squads with the ICC. The BCCI selection committee is expected to meet later this week to finalise the squad.
