 "Team India Announced For Champions Trophy 2025, Shubman Gill Becomes Vice Captain, Shreyas Iyer Returns")
New Delhi- Team India has been announced for the Champions Trophy 2025 (Champions Trophy 2025). Rohit Sharma will be seen captaining the Champions Trophy. While Shubman Gill has been made the vice-captain. Virat Kohli has also got a chance in the squad, while fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has also been included in the 15-member squad. The team was supposed to arrive on January 12 only, but the BCCI had asked the ICC for a few more days.
Shubman Gill has been selected as the vice-captain of Team India for the Champions Trophy. Along with this, Shreyas Iyer, who performed brilliantly in domestic cricket, has returned to the team. Iyer has scored a lot of runs in domestic cricket in recent times. Rishabh Pant and Yashaswi Jaiswal have also been given a chance in the team.
All the teams except Pakistan have announced their squads. Pakistan will also announce their squad in a few days. Let us tell you that Pakistan is the host of this tournament but India will play all its matches in Dubai. BCCI has already said that it will not send its players to Pakistan. In such a situation, ICC had to adopt a hybrid model for this tournament.
Team India will start the tournament with a match against Bangladesh. India will play their first match on February 20. After this, Team India will face Pakistan. India will play their last match of the group stage on March 2. If India reaches the second semi-final, the venue will be changed from Lahore to Dubai.
India’s 15-member team for the Champions Trophy: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashshwi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant And Jadeja