The Indian team for the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan and Dubai will be selected in Mumbai on Today. Chief selector of India Ajit Agarkar will announce the squad, but ace fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah is doubtful for selection due to a back injury. Rohit Sharma is expected to be skipper, while Karun Nair’s selection in squad remains not clear.
Senior batsman Rohit Sharma, who led Indian squad to the final of the ODI World cup, is set to continue as India’s captain. This was confirmed when BCCI announced on Friday that, Today at 12.30pm Rohit Sharma will address a press conference along with chief selector Ajit Agarkar at the BCCI headquarter at the Wankhede stadium here where the squad for Indian team for the Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan and Dubai, which will starts from 19th February 2025 and ends on 9th March, and ODI series of three-match with England at home preceding that, will be picked by national selectors.
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It is interesting to know about Rohit’s future in the international cricket after he quit from India’s XI in the fifth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier this month in Sydney Australia. Nevertheless, on a official telecaster in an interview, the 37-year-old Rohit disclosed that the decision should not be misconducted as a retirement from international cricket.
In the Test series with New Zealand at home, in six innings all Rohit scored was only 91 runs at an average of 15.16. He has not yet decided on his participation in Mumbai’s next Ranji match versus J&K at the Mumbai Cricket Association’s ground in BKG from 23th January.
The ODIs against England are scheduled for 6th, 9th and 12th February 2025. It will also to know if the selectors pick batsman Karun Nair, who has been in peak form in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, in which he has scored 752 runs in just seven innings a an incredible average of 752, with five hundred-four on the trot, to steer Vidarbha into the Vijay Hazare Trophy final for the first time will be selected for the international tournament.
“Whom do you drop if you have to pick Karun in the 15? You can’t drop someone like Shreyas Iyer, who smashed a century in the ODI World cup 2023 semifinal at the Wankhede Stadium and has been in fabulous form across formats in domestic cricket. However, there is set to be a deep discussion on Karun,” a source from BCCI told to media.
