Delhi: Indian cricket selectors have announced their 15-member team for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 to be hosted by Pakistan from 19 February. India captain Rohit Sharma and chief selector Ajit Agarkar announced the squad during the press conference. Karun Nair, who scored 752 runs, was not selected in the team.
No place for Nair
Ajit Agarkar praised Karun Nair’s performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, but said that it is difficult to fit everyone in the team. “An average of over 750 is great, but this is a team of 15 people, so we can’t include everyone,” he said.
Star batsman Karun Nair, who scored 5 centuries in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025, has not been selected in the team. On 19 December 2016, Karun Nair scored a triple century in the test match against England at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. He became the second Indian batsman to score a triple century in Test cricket. Now, at the beginning of the year 2025, Nair has scored 112 in the last 7 innings in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.44163111112122 and 88 Have played innings of runs. During this period he has been out only once. While playing for Vidarbha in this tournament, he has scored 752 runs so far.
India’s squad:
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja. .
