India’s T20 World Cup profitable captain will keep in control of ODI and Take a look at groups within the coming yr, BCCI says.
India’s Rohit Sharma, who ended his T20 worldwide profession with an ICC T20 World Cup triumph, will lead the crew on the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the nation’s cricket board has confirmed.
Rohit will keep on as captain of India’s Take a look at and one-day worldwide (ODI) groups after main India to the T20 title and ending the cricket-mad nation’s 13-year drought for an ICC Males’s World Cup trophy, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed on Sunday.
The BCCI’s Secretary Jay Shah mentioned Rohit would lead the facet within the 2025 World Take a look at Championship (WTC) remaining and the Champions Trophy.
“After this victory, the subsequent stage is the 2025 WTC remaining and the Champions Trophy,” Shah mentioned in a video message. “I’m actually assured that we’ll win each the tournaments underneath the management of Rohit Sharma.”
Rohit, 37, Virat Kohli, 35, and Ravindra Jadeja, 35, introduced their T20 exit after the win over South Africa within the remaining in Barbados on June 29.
It was additionally the final match for coach Rahul Dravid.
Shah praised the trio of veteran gamers, in addition to Dravid.
“This was our third remaining within the final one yr,” Shah mentioned, referring to the ODI World Cup and the World Take a look at Championship.
The ODI Champions Trophy is scheduled to be held in February and March 2025 in Pakistan, India’s western neighbour and archrival within the sport.
The marquee Pakistan vs India match is scheduled for March 1 within the jap metropolis of Lahore, which lies 24km (15 miles) from the border with India, in response to Al Jazeera’s sources within the Pakistan Cricket Board.
For a few years, India’s authorities has barred the nationwide cricket crew from travelling to Pakistan due to ongoing political tensions between the 2 neighbours.
The BCCI has beforehand acknowledged {that a} choice about travelling to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy might be guided by the Indian authorities’s recommendation.
India final performed in Pakistan in 2008, dropping the Asia Cup remaining by 100 runs to Sri Lanka in Karachi.
Pakistan, nonetheless, travelled to India in late 2023 for the 50-over World Cup after their authorities greenlit the tour, opening up the slim chance that India would do likewise for the 2025 Champions Trophy.
The WTC cycle will finish in June 2025 with the ultimate at Lord’s in London.
India have twice completed runners-up within the Take a look at championship, dropping the ultimate to Australia final yr.
Underneath Rohit, India additionally misplaced the ODI World Cup remaining to Australia at dwelling in 2023.
He took over the captaincy of the white-ball crew in 2021 and have become the all-format chief a yr later.
