Rohit Sharma Responded On Mohammed Siraj Not Being Selected: The time of waiting for cricket lovers is over. Team India has been announced for ICC Champions Trophy 2025. In the upcoming tournament also, the Indian team will be captained by experienced batsman Rohit Sharma. The responsibility of vice-captaincy has been placed on the shoulders of Shubman Gill. The most surprising thing during the announcement of the team was that star fast bowler Mohammad Siraj was ignored. Actually, in recent years it has been seen that all the big tournaments that Team India has played. Siraj has been an important part of them. In such a situation, his not being selected for the Champions Trophy is surprising everyone.
If you are also surprised by Siraj not being selected, then Rohit Sharma himself has given the answer. While talking about Siraj during the press conference, he said that Siraj is not able to bowl anything special except with the new ball. And since the ball is old, he does not appear to be very effective. This is the reason why he has not been included in the team.
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Captain Rohit Sharma said after the announcement of the team, ‘We thought a lot. There was uncertainty about Bumrah’s play. Therefore, we chose a player who could bowl with the new ball and in the death overs. Arshdeep fits into both these roles. Shami has performed brilliantly with the new ball.
He further said, ‘When Siraj does not bowl with the new ball, his effectiveness reduces. We chose three main fast bowlers because we had to include all-rounders in our team. It is unfortunate that Siraj had to stay out, but we had to strike the right balance for the team.
Apart from this, while answering Bumrah’s question, he said that we are waiting for his fitness report, which will come out in the first week of February. Only after that we will be able to take some decisions on them.
Ajit Agarkar gave statement on Karun Nair
On the question of not selecting experienced batsman Karun Nair, who has been performing brilliantly in domestic cricket, Ajit Agarkar said that scoring runs at an average of more than 700 is great. However, at present it is a bit difficult to include him in the team.
Indian team for ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill (vice-captain), KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja.
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