Indian star Shubman Gill has his eyes set on the much-important Champions Trophy 2025. Shubman Gill has been given an important role as he will be deputy of Rohit Sharma in the tournament.

The 25-year-old has shared his strong wish to win the title and expressed how important it will be to secure victories throughout the tournament.

The ICC Men's Champions Trophy 2025 is set to begin February 19, and will end March 9. All the matches of India will be played in Dubai as ICC recently has approved a hybrid model for the event.

Gill has been named the vice-captain for the tournament, and is expected to play an important role for India. The right-handed batter has given strong performances consistently in ODIs, and has contributed significantly in a lot of team wins.

As he reflected on the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025, Gill shared that playing in an ICC tournament has always been a childhood dream. He recognizes the level of the tournament, acknowledging the that all the top cricketing nation will be competing, and hence India must be at their absolute best to succeed.

'I'm definitely very hungry, and it is something that you always dream of as a kid, and I've played one ICC tournament and came very close to winning a senior men's trophy. There is no space for defeat only. I think the top teams are playing, and it's very exciting and very grueling, and you know that you don't have any margin of error, so that is very exciting,' Gill said speaking to ICC.

'I remember watching it from home. Whenever I think of that Champion's Trophy, there are a couple of things that I remember. One is Mahi bhai jumping when he missed the Ashwin bhai ball, and I think they (England) needed five runs off the last ball,' Gill added.

'The batsman misses, and then the commentators say, 'The batsman misses, Dhoni misses, but it doesn't matter,' and then everybody is jumping and then seeing everyone dancing in the white coat when they were getting that trophy,' he concluded.

India squad for Champions Trophy:
Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja