India’s ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Squad Announcement Live Updates: All eyes on Jasprit Bumrah’s fitness

Champions Trophy 2025 India Squad List Live Updates: India captain Rohit Sharma and Chairman of selection committee Ajit Agarkar is addressing the press conference.

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 India Squad Announcement Live Updates: Indian Cricket Team captain Rohit Sharma and Chairman of Senior Selection Committee for BCCI Ajit Agarkar will be addressing a press conference at the BCCI headquarter in Mumbai to discuss the 15-member Indian team which has been picked for the 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the UAE next month. India will play all their matches in Dubai.

The Champions Trophy is marking a return to the international calendar for the first time in eight years after hosts Pakistan won the previous edition held in England in 2017. Pakistan defeated India by 180 runs in the final at the Oval, four years after India lifted the title over hosts England in 2013. The eight-team ODI tournament will run from February 19 to March 9 across 3 venues in Pakistan and 1 venue in Dubai for the India matches.

Indian cricket board’s ten commandments

India men’s cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir, left, and chief selector Ajit Agarkar address a press conference in Mumbai, India, Monday, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

The chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar, like Gambhir, too is a stickler for discipline. When leading Mumbai he would speak his mind in case the juniors in the team lacked focus. On the Mumbai cricket circuit, they still call him ‘Tiger’. Early in his stint as selector, he knocked Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan off the list of contracted cricketers as they missed Ranji games. Iyer’s injury didn’t sway him from taking this extreme step. (READ MORE)