In a hammer blow to India, pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the 2025 Champions Trophy. Having sent down over 150 overs in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Bumrah is yet to completely recover from the discomfort in his back, an injury he picked up during the Sydney Test in January that also sidelined him from the England white-ball series.
This is the second ICC tournament Bumrah will be missing due to injury, having sat out the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia due to back injury which eventually forced him to go under the knife.
BCCI stated that Bumrah’s replacement is Harshit Rana, who made his ODI debut during the ongoing England series. The ICC had set February 11 as the cut-off date for all participating teams to submit their final XV for the Champions Trophy. Any subsequent changes to the squad henceforth will have to be approved from the tournament’s technical committee.
India’s squad for the Champions Trophy: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy
