India’s T20 World Cup successful captain will keep in command of ODI and Take a look at groups within the coming 12 months, BCCI says.
India’s Rohit Sharma, who ended his T20 worldwide profession with an ICC T20 World Cup triumph, will lead the group on the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the nation’s cricket board has confirmed.
Rohit will keep on as captain of India’s Take a look at and one-day worldwide (ODI) groups after main India to the T20 title and ending the cricket-mad nation’s 13-year drought for an ICC Males’s World Cup trophy, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed on Sunday.
The BCCI’s Secretary Jay Shah stated Rohit would lead the facet within the 2025 World Take a look at Championship (WTC) ultimate and the Champions Trophy.
“After this victory, the subsequent stage is the 2025 WTC ultimate and the Champions Trophy,” Shah stated in a video message. “I’m actually assured that we are going to win each the tournaments below the management of Rohit Sharma.”
Rohit, 37, Virat Kohli, 35, and Ravindra Jadeja, 35, introduced their T20 exit after the win over South Africa within the ultimate in Barbados on June 29.
It was additionally the final match for coach Rahul Dravid.
Shah praised the trio of veteran gamers, in addition to Dravid.
“This was our third ultimate within the final one 12 months,” Shah stated, referring to the ODI World Cup and the World Take a look at Championship.
The ODI Champions Trophy is scheduled to be held in February and March 2025 in Pakistan, India’s western neighbour and archrival within the sport.
The marquee Pakistan vs India match is scheduled for March 1 within the jap metropolis of Lahore, which lies 24km (15 miles) from the border with India, in accordance with Al Jazeera’s sources within the Pakistan Cricket Board.
For a few years, India’s authorities has barred the nationwide cricket group from travelling to Pakistan due to ongoing political tensions between the 2 neighbours.
The BCCI has beforehand acknowledged {that a} determination about travelling to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy might be guided by the Indian authorities’s recommendation.
India final performed in Pakistan in 2008, dropping the Asia Cup ultimate by 100 runs to Sri Lanka in Karachi.
Pakistan, nevertheless, travelled to India in late 2023 for the 50-over World Cup after their authorities greenlit the tour, opening up the slim chance that India would do likewise for the 2025 Champions Trophy.
The WTC cycle will finish in June 2025 with the ultimate at Lord’s in London.
India have twice completed runners-up within the Take a look at championship, dropping the ultimate to Australia final 12 months.
Below Rohit, India additionally misplaced the ODI World Cup ultimate to Australia at dwelling in 2023.
He took over the captaincy of the white-ball group in 2021 and have become the all-format chief a 12 months later.
