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India's Champions Trophy 2025 And England Series Squad Announcement Live: Fans around the world are eagerly waiting for the announcement of India's squad for the upcoming white-ball series against England and the Champions Trophy 2025. As per a report by the Indian Express, the BCCI selection committee, headed by Ajit Agarkar, is likely to pick both the squads on Friday.
Legendary Indian cricket team batter Sunil Gavaskar was all praise for young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal following the five-match Test series against Australia. Although India lost the series 1-3, Jaiswal was a bright spot amid various disappointments as he scored 391 runs in 5 matches at an average of 43.44. Gavaskar said that he was initially skeptical about whether Jaiswal will be able to perform on Australian pitches but his consistency was brilliant and he learnt from his past mistakes to improve his game.
Young Indian batter Yashasvi Jaiswal on Monday reflected on his maiden tour of Australia during the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy and said that he has learnt a lot. India began the series with a win in Perth but failed to sustain the momentum. This marked Australia's first Border-Gavaskar Trophy triumph in a decade, their last win came in 2014-15. Kohli, one of India's senior players, was among the biggest disappointments, managing just 190 runs at an average of 23.75 in eight innings, with Scott Boland dismissing him four times.
As Team India's hunt for the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 final comes to an end, the focus for Gautam Gambhir and co. will shift to the upcoming WTC 2025-27 cycle. India will play Test series against six different opponents in this period, starting off with arguably their hardest assignment of the whole cycle - a five-Test tour of England in June 2025. Having reached the final of the previous two cycles but not this one, Gambhir will be hoping he can take India to Test success if he carries on as coach till then.
After India's defeat in the final Test match and their inability to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar has assessed the team's performance and opined that young players like Yashasvi Jaiswal and Nitish Reddy, who are "hungry to earn a name for India" are needed in the team. Jaiswal has amassed 391 runs in five Tests, out of which 161 came in his brilliant second innings knock in the series opener in Perth, where India won by 295 runs. However, he had a brief period of struggle before scoring 82 and 84 in the Melbourne Test. On the other hand, Reddy scored 298 runs in nine innings across five matches. He started off with handy knocks of 41, 38 not out on his Test debut. He further scored 42, 42 before bettering it with a maiden Test century in Melbourne, providing a much-needed contribution from the lower order.
Clashes between Australia's 19-year-old opener Sam Konstas and Indian players have been some of the highlights of the final two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25. The final moments of Day 1 saw Konstas and Bumrah in a war of words, which fired up the Indian seamer. Bumrah ended up dismissing Konstas' opening partner Usman Khawaja at the fag end of Day 1, prompting a tweet from former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra taunting Konstas, and inviting him on a tour to India.
Regular India captain Rohit Sharma, who stood himself down from the ongoing Sydney Test due to his poor form, said the new boys in the team have to work hard and earn the chance of taking up the leadership role in the future. Rohit stood himself down from playing the Sydney Test after making just 3, 6, 10, 3 and 9 in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. In his absence, Jasprit Bumrah has been captaining India in Sydney, but in worrying signs for the visitors, he left the field during second session of day two's play and was seen going to hospital for scans with members of the support staff.
Sam Konstas' aggressive approach with the bat has caused a couple of headaches for Team India in the final two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25. It has also seen the Indian players show some aggression towards the 19-year-old, headlined by the infamous shoulder clash between Konstas and Kohli. Now, Yashasvi Jaiswal has seemingly joined in, as he tried to sledge the opener in Hindi. Jaiswal added a little more spice as well, refusing to pronounce Sam Konstas' name properly.