Champions Trophy 2025 / Jay Shah's statement made it clear whether Virat and Rohit will play in the Champions Trophy or not

Champions Trophy 2025: While the players of the Indian team and all the fans were very happy after winning the title of T20 World Cup 2024, during this time, two legendary players of Team India, captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, said goodbye to this format. In the year 2007, when the Indian team won the T20 World Cup trophy for the first time, Rohit Sharma was also a part of the Indian team at that time, while this was the first T20 World Cup trophy of Virat Kohli's career. At the same time, now all eyes are on the ICC Champions Trophy to be held next year, in which BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has cleared the whole picture with his statement regarding whether Rohit and Virat will play or not.

Both the players will be seen playing in the Champions Trophy

BCCI Secretary Jay Shah made it clear in his statement to PTI that all the senior players will be part of the team in the Champions Trophy to be held next year. His statement has now confirmed that Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will be seen playing in this mega event and the responsibility of winning this ICC trophy will be on their shoulders. Jai Shah said in his statement that after the kind of form the team is currently showing, our next target is to win the Test World Championship and the Champions Trophy and senior players will also be a part of the team in that.

Team India will play so many ODI matches before the Champions Trophy

The ICC Champions Trophy, played in 50 overs format, is being organized again after the year 2017, in which 8 teams of world cricket will participate. Team India will get a chance to play a total of 9 ODIs from July 2023 till the start of the Champions Trophy next year, in which it will get a chance to play a series of 3-3 matches against Sri Lanka, New Zealand and England.