India’s T20 World Cup-winning captain will remain in charge of the ODI and Test teams next year, says the BCCI.
India’s Rohit Sharma, who ended his international T20 career with an ICC T20 World Cup triumph, will lead the team in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the country’s cricket board has confirmed.
Rohit will remain captain of India’s Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams after leading India to the T20 title and ending the cricket-mad country’s 13-year drought for an ICC Men’s World Cup trophy, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed on Sunday.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah said Rohit would lead the team to the 2025 World Test Championship (WTC) final and the Champions Trophy.
“After this victory, the next stage is the WTC 2025 final and the Champions Trophy,” Shah said in a video message. “I am really confident that we will win both tournaments under Rohit Sharma’s leadership.”
Rohit, 37, Virat Kohli, 35, and Ravindra Jadeja, 35, announced their exit from T20 following their victory over South Africa in the final in Barbados on June 29.
It was also coach Rahul Dravid’s last match.
Shah praised the trio of veteran players as well as Dravid.
“This was our third final in the last one year,” Shah said, referring to the ODI World Cup and the World Test Championship.
The ODI Champions Trophy is scheduled to be held in February and March 2025 in Pakistan, India’s western neighbor and arch-rival in the sport.
The match between Pakistan and India is scheduled for March 1 in the eastern city of Lahore, which is 24 km (15 miles) from the border with India, according to Al Jazeera sources at the Pakistan Cricket Board.
For many years, the Indian government banned the national cricket team from traveling to Pakistan due to ongoing political tensions between the two neighbors.
The BCCI had earlier stated that the decision on traveling to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy will be guided by the advice of the Indian government.
India last played Pakistan in 2008, losing the Asia Cup final by 100 runs to Sri Lanka in Karachi.
Pakistan, however, traveled to India in late 2023 for the 50s World Cup after their government gave the green light for the trip, opening up the slim possibility that India could do the same for the Champions Trophy. 2025.
The WTC cycle will end in June 2025 with the final at Lord’s, London.
India has twice finished runners-up in the Test championship, losing the final to Australia last year.
Under Rohit, India also lost the ODI World Cup final to Australia at home in 2023.
He took over the captaincy of the white-ball team in 2021 and became the all-format leader a year later.
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