Champions Trophy 2025: The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is going to be played under the hosting of Pakistan. However, nothing can be said at the moment whether the Indian team will tour Pakistan for this tournament or not. A total of 15 players will be included in this team for the Champions Trophy, whose names are already considered almost final.

Currently, there are about 6 months left for the start of the Champions Trophy but before that, we are going to tell you the playing eleven for the mega event through this article. This playing eleven of Team India will include senior and young players.

Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill will open

Rohit Sharma will be seen captaining the Indian team in this tournament.

Even though he has announced his retirement from T20 cricket, he is still seen captaining the Test and ODI team and the Champions Trophy is to be played in the ODI format.

In this tournament, Rohit will be seen playing as an opening batsman for India. Young batsman Shubman Gill will be seen as his partner. Gill has been associated with Team India for some time now and he can be seen as Rohit's partner.

KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer are out

Surprising names have been left out from the playing eleven of this team of Champions Trophy and this includes the name of wicketkeeper batsman KL Rahul.

Rahul has performed brilliantly in ODI cricket for Team India but even after this he has not got a place in the eleven.

Shreyas Iyer has also shown good performance in ODI cricket for some time but even after this he has failed to make his place in the team. Iyer has scored runs at an average of more than 47 in ODI cricket but even after this he has not got a place in the playing eleven.

In place of Rahul, the responsibility of wicketkeeper batsman has been given to Rishabh Pant. Pant has also been continuously with Team India for some time now and he has got a chance in the playing eleven.

Let us tell you that this playing eleven has been selected by our experts of Sportzwiki.

This is how India's playing eleven is

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami.