The Indian team is still preparing for the Champions Trophy 2025. This time Pakistan is hosting the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The Indian team is currently focused on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, although Australia has taken a 2-1 lead. Now the Indian team will try to save BGT by winning the last match. After this the Indian team will be announced for the Champions Trophy.
ICC has fixed the date of team announcement as 12th January. In such a situation, the Indian team for this tournament will be announced by 11. India will play all its matches in Dubai and will play its first match on 20th.
The Indian team has seen a big turnaround in the last few days. Rohit Sharma, who is the captain of the Indian team, recently made India the T20 champion under his captaincy and retired from T20. Rohit was the captain of ODI and Test but now suddenly everything has started changing. India lost the Test series 3-0 at home for the first time in its history under the captaincy of Rohit. Since then there has been a lot of criticism. Earlier, the same Indian team had also defeated Sri Lanka in the ODI series.
Now, after the first match for the Indian team in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the Indian team is lagging far behind under the captaincy of Rohit. After this Rohit was out of the match and the captaincy went to Bumrah. But now India has to look towards the ICC Trophy, in such a situation Rohit's name may be left out as the new captain for India.
There are many ODI captain contenders for the Indian team in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. In this, reports have started coming in that Rohit Sharma will not be the captain. Jasprit Bumrah's name can come up for the Indian team but considering his work load management, he can be made the vice-captain. Rishabh Pant is also there for captaincy but now Hardik Pandya's name is appearing in such reports.