Champions Trophy 2025: Now these Indian giants will not go to Pakistan, this responsibility in India-England series

Javagal srinath not going to pakistan for champins trophy: The Indian team (Team India Squad for Champions Trophy 2025) has been announced for the Champions Trophy. The 15 -member team is being led by Rohit Sharma. Shubman Gill has been given a big responsibility for this ICC tournament. Gill has been made the vice -captain of Team India. Earlier, there was a lot of speculation for Team India’s visit to Pakistan with the Champions Trophy, but in the end the ICC decided to hold all the matches in India in Dubai for BCCI’s decision not to go to Pakistan.

Now just before the Champions Trophy, news has come that the match referee Jawagal Srinath and umpire Nitin Menon will not be part of the Champions Trophy in Pakistan, former India bowler and now match referee Jawagal Srinath and Umpire Nitin Menon – Pakistan and 9 February to 9 March to 9 March ICC Champions to be held in Dubai will not be part of the Trophy

According to the report, Menon has refused to travel to Pakistan due to “personal reasons”. At the same time, Srinath, who is currently umpiring in the ODI series being played between India and England, told TOI before the first ODI in Nagpur that he had asked for a “holiday” from the ICC.

Just before this, the ICC has announced the names of 15 match officials for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 to be held in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates between 19 February to 9 March. The tournament will be played in Pakistan in three venue – Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In the 15 members who have announced a panel of 15 members, 12 umpires will be seen on the field in this competition of 8 teams. While three umpires will be seen in the role of match referee.

Richard Ketterboro, who was a field umpire in the final of the Champions Trophy in UK in 2017, is part of the 12 -member panel. Six match officials of the 2017 Champions Trophy final have got a place in the panel. Richard Ketterboro has an umpiring experience in 108 ODIs. He will also be accompanied by Chris Gaffni, Kumar Dharmasena, Richard Illingworth, Paul Refel and Rod Tucker, who also umpiring in the 2017 tournament.

Kumar Dharmasena of Sri Lanka will extend his record in the upcoming tournament to 132 ODIs. This is a record for an umpire of a Sri Lankan captain in ODI format. He was accompanied by Michael Gough, Adrian Holdstock, Ahsan Raza, Shafududdaula Ibne Shahid, Alex Wharf and Joel Wilson, all of which umpiring the World Cup in India.

The panel of the match referee will be headed by David Boon, Ranjan Madugale and Andrew Picroft, which Emirates are all respected members of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referee. According to the ICC, Seen Easy, senior manager of the umpire and the referee’s ICC, said, “We are happy to announce this highly reliable team of match officials for the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025.”