Rahul Tiwari
khelja|18-01-2025
Team India Champions Trophy Squad LIVE: Champions Trophy 2025 will start from 19th February, which will be played till 9th March. So far 6 teams have been announced for this tournament. At the same time, Team India's squad will be announced today. Chief selector Ajit Agarkar will announce India's 15-member team for this tournament in the press conference and Rohit Sharma may also be with him.
A total of 8 teams will play in the Champions Trophy, which are divided into 2 groups. Team India is in Group A with Pakistan, New Zealand and Bangladesh. It will play one match each against these three teams in the group stage. Team India will make its debut in this tournament from 20th February, in this match it will face Bangladesh. Then Team India will play its second match against Pakistan. This match will be played on 23 February. After this, in its last match of the group, it will face New Zealand on March 2. After this the semi-finals and then the final will be played.
Champions Trophy was started in the year 1998. India has won the title in this tournament twice so far. In the year 2002, Team India and Sri Lanka were the joint winners of this tournament. Then the final match was lost to rain. At the same time, in the year 2013, Team India won the Champions Trophy title by defeating England in the final. On the other hand, this tournament is going to return after eight years. Last time this tournament was held in the year 2017. Then Pakistan had defeated Team India in the final.