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After India introduced their squad for his or her upcoming five-match T20Is in opposition to England, your complete focus has shifted to their yet-to-be-announced staff for ODIs in opposition to the aspect and the Champions Trophy 2025. Whereas India’s one-dayers in opposition to England start on February 6, the ICC occasion is about to begin on nineteenth of the month. The anticipate the squads to be introduced continues and BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla has given an enormous replace on that. Throughout an interplay with media on Sunday, Shukla knowledgeable that the choice assembly for the Champions Trophy can be held on January 18 or 19.
India play their Champions Trophy opener in opposition to Bangladesh on February 20. Underneath the hybrid mannequin, India will all play their video games in Dubai whereas the opposite league video games can be performed in host nation Pakistan.
Star batter Rohit Sharma will stay Indian captain until the ICC Champions Trophy this yr, claimed an ANI report.
Additionally, tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is being mentioned as India’s subsequent captain, the report added.
Rohit’s captaincy has been a mixture of memorable highs and a few extraordinarily disappointing lows. Be it a 10-match profitable streak throughout the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup at house, which concluded with a loss to Australia within the ultimate or India’s redemption with an ICC T20 World Cup title win in 2024 at Barbados, Rohit’s captaincy has given followers loads of positives. Underneath him, staff additionally made it to the ultimate of the ICC World Take a look at Championship 2023, the place they misplaced to Australia.
Nevertheless, because the second half of 2024, luck appears to have abandoned the ‘Hitman’ each as a batter and captain. Within the 2024/25 Take a look at season which began with the house collection in opposition to Bangladesh, Rohit scored simply 164 runs in eight matches and 15 innings at a mean of 10.93 with the very best rating of 52. Through the recently-concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy, he may make simply 31 runs in three Checks with finest rating of 10. His type struggles have been such that he opted out of the ultimate Take a look at at Sydney.
As a captain, Rohit touched some embarrassing lows as of late. Simply earlier than the Take a look at collection in opposition to Australia, India misplaced their first house Take a look at collection in 12 years, to New Zealand by 0-3. This was additionally their first-ever whitewash in a house Take a look at collection of three matches or extra.
(With company inputs)
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