- BCCI has selected its captain and vice-captain for the Champions Trophy 2025 to be hosted by Pakistan. The selectors can entrust important responsibilities to these two players.
Champions Trophy 2025: This time Champions Trophy 2025 is to be played under the hosting of Pakistan. On Tuesday, ICC has released the schedule of this event. Team India will start its campaign against Bangladesh on 20 February.
At the same time, the captain and vice-captain of Team India have been decided before the Champions Trophy 2025. The BCCI has handed over the command of Team India to two talented players of India. One player will be seen captaining while the other player will be seen supporting him in captaincy.
This player will take over the responsibility of captaincy Champions Trophy 2025
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The responsibility of captaincy of the Indian team can be handed over to Rohit Sharma. Under his captaincy, Team India’s performance has been amazing in the country and abroad. The statistics of Rohit Sharma’s captaincy in white ball cricket are also a testimony to this. Team India’s ODI win percentage under Rohit’s captaincy is 70.83.
So far, he has captained the Indian team in 48 ODIs, in which Team India has won 34 matches and lost 12. Rohit has a good experience of captaining Team India in big events, after which it is believed that he will be seen captaining Team India once again.
T20 World Cup won under the captaincy of Rohit
Team India won the T20I World Cup 2024 played this year under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. India won the title in this tournament hosted by the West Indies and the United States of America. In this final match of the World Cup, India faced South Africa. India won the title in this thrilling match that went to the last ball.
At the same time, in the ODI World Cup 2023 played last year, Team India reached the final. Although they could not win the title, every veteran player was seen praising Rohit’s captaincy. His leadership skills were being praised a lot. Now once again he can be seen leading the Indian team in the ICC tournament.
Gill can become vice-captain
There is still doubt over who will take over the captaincy of Team India after Rohit Sharma. Star players like Hardik Pandya and Rishabh Pant are important contenders for the vice-captaincy in the Champions Trophy 2025, but the selectors can ignore these players and hand over the vice-captaincy to 25-year-old young batsman Shubman Gill.
BCCI is looking at Shubman Gill as the next captain of India, for which it wants to prepare him from now on. This is the reason why he can be made the vice-captain in the big ICC event (Champions Trophy 2025). Gill will have a great opportunity to learn the qualities of captaincy under Rohit. It is believed that Rohit Sharma may retire after the 2027 ODI World Cup, before which he wants to mold Gill as a captain.