India squad announced for Champions Trophy 2025: The Indian team has been announced for the Champions Trophy. While Sanju Samson has not been given a place in the team, Shubman Gill has been made the vice-captain. Right there, now Dainik Jagran According to the report, coach Gautam Gambhir was not in favor of making Shubman Gill the vice-captain. The report said that Gambhir wanted Hardik to be given the vice-captaincy but captain Rohit Sharma and chief selector Ajit Agarkar were not in favor of Hardik. Rohit and Ajit Agarkar wanted to see Gill on the post of vice-captain.
Hence the delay in team announcement
Let us tell you that Team India was announced on 18 January. Earlier the team was to be announced by 12:30 pm but the team could not be announced within the stipulated time. Actually, after three hours the Indian team for the Champions Trophy was announced. According to the report, coach Gambhir, captain Rohit and selector Ajit Agarkar were talking about selecting Hardik Pandya and Sanju Samson in the team. Let us tell you that Hardik was the vice-captain of the Indian team in the World Cup 2023.
It has also been revealed in the report that Gambhir wanted to include Sanju Samson in the team for wicketkeeper but Rohit and Agarkar were in favor of Pant. Gambhir wanted to include Sanju, who has scored three international centuries in a calendar year, as a wicketkeeper in the Champions Trophy team, but Rohit and Agarkar were adamant on including Pant in the team, after which finally a consensus was reached on Pant.
Indian cricket team for Champions Trophy- Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal. , Ravindra Jadeja
On the other hand, politician Shashi Tharoor also reacted to Sanju’s non-inclusion in the team and while sharing the post on social media platform And had already written a letter to KCA for his inability to participate in the training camp in the middle of the Vijay Hazare Trophy tournament, and he was immediately dropped from the team, as a result of which Sanju has now been dropped from the Indian team. Is..”
The sorry saga of the Kerala Cricket Association and Sanju Samson — the player wrote to KCA, in advance, regretting his inability to attend a training camp between the SMA and the Vijay Hazare Trophy tournaments, and was promptly dropped from the squad — has now resulting in…
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 18, 2025
Shashi Tharoor further wrote in his post, “A batsman whose highest score is 212* in Vijay Hazare, who averages 56.66 in ODIs for India (including a century in his last match against South Africa), his career “Doesn’t it bother the KCA owners that by keeping Sanju out, it’s because of the arrogance of the administrators that Kerala doesn’t even reach the quarter-finals?”
