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The highly-aniticpated ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 kickstarted on Wednesday, February 19 with hosts, Pakistan taking on New Zealand at the National Stadium in Karachi. However, the next day, on February 20, Rohit Sharma-led Team India kickstarted their Champions Trophy 2025 campaign as they took on Bangladesh on Group A fixture at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai.
With the Men in Blue coming into the tournament after a 3-0 series win over England, they will be hoping to continuing their winning run in the 50-over format, eyeing to lift the coveted title. However, as the two skippers, Rohit Sharma and his Bangladesh counterpart, Najmul Hossain Shanto took the field, it was latter who came out on top and elected to bat first.
Arshdeep Singh and Varun Chakravarthy misses out; Harshit Rana and Md Shami returns
Speaking after losing 11th toss in a row, starting from 2023 ODI World Cup final, Rohit Sharma said, “I would have fielded first. We have played a few years back here so we felt the ball comes on better under lights. All looking good. Everyone is fit and fine to go. Let's hope we start well. There is no looking back, every game becomes very important in this tournament.”
When asked of the combination, the 37-year-old added, “only Varun misses out from the last ODI we played, Jadeja comes back, Arshdeep misses and Shami comes back.” It is to be noted that Varun Chakravarthy was dropped from the India XI in last ODI, while Jadeja was rested.
Bangladesh vs India Champions Trophy 2025 Playing XI
India : Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav.
Bangladesh: Tanzid Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman
