After the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 (BGT), now the focus is on the Champions Trophy which will start on 19th February 2025. The selection committee led by Ajit Agarkar will soon announce the squad.

England hosted the Champions Trophy 2017, this time Pakistan will host the 2025 Champions Trophy and a different venue has been decided for India where India will play its match because due to India-Pakistan controversies, India has refused to go to Pakistan.

The last Champions Trophy was held in 2017 and the champion was Pakistan and the runner-up was India. 

Pakistan is the champion of the Champions Trophy and India is the runner-up, Pakistan will try its best to defend its title and India will also try its best to win the Champions Trophy this time. Now let’s see the weaknesses and strengths, the probable squad, and the probable playing 11 of Team India in this Champions Trophy. 

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India Probable Squad: 

Rohit Sharma (C), Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami & Arshdeep Singh.

India Probable Playing 11:

Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Mohammed Shami

After losing BGT 2024-25, India will now focus on their white-ball cricket 5 T20I and 3 ODI matches home series against England.

The selection committee has not announced the squad yet, and its deadline is also 12th January to announce the squad for the Champions Trophy, but the team can make changes till 13th February.  

India's squad for the ODI series against England will likely remain unchanged for the Champions Trophy, given the short time gap between the two events.

Strength: 

India is one of the strongest teams in Group A and has an attacking opener like Rohit Sharma Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill as opening partner options. Yashasvi Jaiswal is an attacking player just like Rohit. Regarding the middle order, there is Virat Kohli whom India calls a run machine and Virat Kohli's consistency will help in the run leads. 

After the batsmen, if we talk about all-rounders then there is Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, and Axar Patel who have shown good performance in the 2024 T20 World Cup. If we talk about bowlers then there will be Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj and if Shami recovers from his injury then he will be there.

Weakness: 

India’s major concern over the year is their under-pressure situation, almost every time India has failed to tackle pressure situations in crucial matches or knockouts. And the middle-order concerns - middle-order failure being a question. 

India will play their first match against Bangladesh on 20th February - Dubai

On the 23rd Feb, they will play their second match against Pakistan - Dubai 

On the 2nd March, India will play their last group stage match against New Zealand - Dubai