Trouble In Team India Before Champions Trophy 2025! Top Wicketkeeper Miffed With Gautam Gambhir: Sources
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India begin their campaign for the Champions Trophy 2025 in a match against Bangladesh in Dubai on February 20. This will be the first ICC tournament that Team India will play since the appointment of Gautam Gambir as the head coach. Ever since the former opener took over the reins from Rahul Dravid, India have not been in the best of form. There have also been rumours of discontent within the dressing room. Ahead of the mega ICC event, there seems to be trouble brewing inside the Team India dressing room once again.
Sources have exclusively confirmed to Times Now that a current India wicketkeeper is unhappy with head coach Gautam Gambhir. The player is currently not the first choice in the playing XI for ODIs. He feels that there is an external reason behind him losing his spot in the 50-over format.
KL Rahul Preferred Choice In ODIs Over Rishabh Pant
KL Rahul is currently the first-choice wicketkeeper batter for Team India in ODIs. He has been performing well in the role for the Men in Blue in the 50-over format in the recent past. He was especially impressive in the ODI World Cup 2023. Even though his recent ODI performances are nothing to boast of, he continues to cement his place in the playing XI. He is expected to continue in the tole in the Champions Trophy 2025 as well.
Rishabh Pant is the other wicketkeeper-batter in the Champions Trophy 2025 squad. Even though he has cemented his place in Tests, he has not found his groove in white-ball cricket, especially in ODIs. Pant has played only one ODI since his return from a life-threatening accident, against Sri Lanka in 2024. He got out after scoring just 6 runs.
India 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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