India named their 2025 Champions Trophy squad

Gautam Gambhir was reportedly turned down on key decisions

India named Shubman Gill as the vice-captain

While there were whispers of a fight in the Indian dressing room, there was a likelihood of disagreement on at least two issues within India’s delegation regarding the team for the 2025 Champions Trophy — Gambhir’s role in which Indian team’s Ajit Agarkar was the coach and captain Rohit Sharma.

One of the main factors behind the extended meeting is certainly the differences that have been developing between the head coach, selector and captain. Following all this, while the selection of India’s ODI team for a certain series at one point seemed like easy business, the meeting of January 18th dragged on for longer than 2.5 hours which is not what the fans and media in attendance were expecting from a press conference at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai with all the arrangements done.

Dainik Jagran reports: A BCCI official stationed in the Mumbai office informed them that Gambhir expressed his preference for Hardik Pandya to take up the vice captaincy of the team but Rohit and Agarkar were against that and wished Gill take up the second in charge position instead,. In the end, the 25 year old was only for a brief period in last years tour of Sri Lanka received a vice captaincy and was promoted back to his captain position.

With regards to the T20 format, Hardik has not been a part of the leadership group since Suryakumar Yadav was made the official T20 Indian captain, after the India’s 2023 Cricket World Cup, Yadav was also made the full-time T20 I captain in 2024. As India get ready to go up against England in the five-match T20I series, the selectors of the Indian team have picked Axar Patel as the vice captain of the T20I team for the first time.

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