Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra feels that India's bowling will be a concern in the ICC Champions Trophy. India will be without ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah in the showpiece event as he was ruled out of the tournament due to injury. India have included a plethora of spinners in the squad, but Chopra feels that the bowling will be the weak link for the Men in Blue.

“We are saying that we have a lot of variation in bowling and have five spinners as well. However, if we are being honest, we have an issue with bowling. Our strength is our batting. We are playing batting till No. 8,” Aakash Chopra said speaking on his YouTube channel.

“I am with you 100%. It’s the rule in white-ball cricket that whatever is your strength should be the second thing you should do. If your bowling is good, do that later. If your batting is good, do that later, and this team’s batting is good,” he added.

Chopra said that India's batting will be their strength in the gala event, saying that the team should prefer chasing to get good results “The pressure to win matches should be on the batters. So definitely India should bat second. If you win the toss, decide to bowl, and you ideally do that as well because dew also comes later at times. If there is any danger of dew, that is always in the second innings,” Chopra would say.

India will be playing their matches in Dubai and dew could play the part in the second innings.

India’s squad for Champions Trophy 2025: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohd. Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy.

Non Travelling substitutes: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammed Siraj and Shivam Dube.

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