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The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will kickstart an exciting 2025 year, and all eyes will be on the ICC event after the high of New Year’s Test across the world dies. The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be played in Pakistan, with the UAE hosting all of India’s group matches from February 19 to March 9.
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After much discussion, the schedule for the ICC event was unveiled a few days ago. Eight teams will participate in the event, including hosts Pakistan. They have been grouped with India, New Zealand, and Bangladesh in Group A, and Australia, England, Afghanistan, and South Africa will form Group B.
Lahore, Karachi, and Rawalpindi will be the hosts for the Champions Trophy 2025, with Dubai hosting India’s matches. If India qualifies for the semi-final and final, then those matches will be played in Dubai; otherwise, Karachi will host one of the semi-finals, and the final will be played in Lahore.
When will two-time champions India unveil its squad for the Champions Trophy?
Up until now, only England has announced their squad for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 tournament. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced the squads for their limited-overs tour of India, where they will play five T20Is and three ODIs before heading to Pakistan/UAE for CT 2025.
India, which shared the trophy with Sri Lanka in 2002 and won it in 2013 before losing spectacularly to Pakistan in the 2017 final, will announce their squad for the event in the second week of January. According to reports, the selection committee chaired by Ajit Agarkar is expected to announce on January 11.
India's squad is set to include the majority of the players currently in Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, including under-fire captain Rohit Sharma, who pulled out of the final Test in Sydney due to his poor performance as a batsman and captain.
India will have 5 T20Is and 3 ODIs against England to gauge their players' performances before naming the squad for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Seniors like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are likely to play in the ODI series against England, as they have retired from T20Is. Jasprit Bumrah, on the other hand, will be rested, given his back issues flared up during the Sydney Test.
The deadline for the eight participating teams to announce their squads—India, Pakistan, England, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh—is set by the ICC for 12 January, a little over a month before the tournament gets underway.
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