The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy will be held from February 19 to March 9. This year's event will be the ninth edition of the ODI tournament and will feature eight teams. While Pakistan will host the majority of the matches across three venues (Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi), India will play their games in Dubai as per a hybrid model arrangement.
The eight participating nations have been divided into two groups of four teams each. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and New Zealand are in Group A, while Australia, England, South Africa, and Afghanistan have been placed in Group B. The top two teams from each group will qualify for the semifinals. The final will be played in Dubai if India qualifies else the summit clash will be held in Lahore.
Hosts Pakistan are the defending champions in the event. They won the Champions Trophy in 2017 by beating India in the final at The Oval. The 2025 edition will kick off with a match between Pakistan and New Zealand in Karachi. The marquee India vs Pakistan match will be played in Dubai on February 23.
2025 Champions Trophy: A look at all the eight squads
Group A
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill (vc), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Mohammad Shami, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
Non Travelling substitutes: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammed Siraj, Shivam Dube
Pakistan: Mohammad Rizwan (c), Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Tayyab Tahir, Faheem Ashraf, Khushdil Shah, Salman Ali Agha, Usman Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi.
Bangladesh: Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Towhid Hridoy, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Parvez Hossain, Tanzim Hasan, Nahid Rana, Nasum Ahmed.
New Zealand: Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Matt Henry, Tom Latham (wk), Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), Kane Williamson, Will O’Rourke, Will Young, Michael Bracewell, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Smith, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy
Group B
Australia: Steve Smith (c), Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Tanveer Sangha, Matthew Short, Spencer Johnson, Adam Zampa
Travelling reserve: Cooper Connolly.
South Africa: Temba Bavuma (c), Tony de Zorzi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), David Miller, Marco Jansen, Wiaan Mulder, Ryan Rickelton, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Rassie van der Dussen, Corbin Bosch
Travelling reserve: Kwena Maphaka
England: Jos Buttler (c & wk), Harry Brook, Joe Root, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Brydon Carse, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Saqib Mahmood, Phil Salt, Mark Wood, Jacob Bethell
Afghanistan squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Ikram Alikhil, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Nangyal Kharote, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Farid Malik, Naveed Zadran.
Reserves: Darwish Rasooli, Bilal Sami
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